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Training Course Summary:

Suitable for the BCS Mainframe Technology professional Exams for level 3 Consultant (CICS)



This course aims to:
- Describe the internal structure of CICS/TS, including the domain structure.
- Explain how failures are internally handled and how the user can participate in ABEND processing.
- Present the control blocks and internal logic.
- Transaction dumps and system dumps are used as examples.
- IPCS is also reviewed so that students become familiar with this product.

Pre-Requisites:

Systems Programmers with at least six months CICS experience and a basic knowledge of CICS Internals.
Application Programmers with a minimum of nine months CICS programming experience.

Who Should Attend:

System programmers and technical support staff responsible for supporting a CICS system.
CICS application programmers who are responsible for reading their own CICS dumps would also benefit.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Architecture
Domain Architecture
Kernel Linkage
Common Format Parameter Lists
Common Format Modules
Kernel Domain Repository

The Kernel (KE) Domain
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information

The Dispatcher (DS) Domain
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information

The Trace (TR) Domain
Where
What
Controls
Overheads

The Application (AP) Domain
Important Structures
Detailed Dump Information
File Control (FC)
Interval Control (IC)
Terminal Control (TC)
Transient Data (TD)

The Program Manager (PG) Domain
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information

The Transaction Manager (XM) Domain
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information

The Storage Manager (SM) Domain
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information
Detailed Dump Information

The Loader (LD) Domain
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information

The Message (ME) & Dump (DU) Domains
Formats
Relationship
Dump Tables

The Logger (LG) & Recovery Manager (RM) Domains
Key Functions
Relationship
Important Structures

Temporary Storage Domain (TS)
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information

The Enqueue Manager (NQ) Domain
Key Functions
Important Structures
Summary Dump Information

The Web-Related Domains
Document Handler (DH)
Enterprise Java Beans (EJ)
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (II)
IP ECI (IE)
Object Transaction Services (OT)
Partner (PT)
Request Streams (RZ)
Scalable Java (SJ)
Sockets (SO)
Web Interface (WB)

Business Transaction Manager Domains
Event Manager (EM)
Scheduler (SH)

Miscellaneous Domains
Debugging Profile (DP)
Directory Manager (DD)
Domain Manager (DM)
External Security Interface (XS)
Local & Global Catalogues (LC & GC)
Lock Manager (LM)
Monitor (MN)
Parameter Manager (PA)
RRS Interface (RX)
Statistics (ST)
Timer (TI)
User (US)

Formatting
Dumps Use of IPCS for formatting system dumps is illustrated.
Use of the offline transaction dump utility is discussed.