INTRODUCTION TO CICS

Pavani D
Feb 23, 2007
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 BATCH & ONLINE SYSTEM

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BATCH & ONLINE SYSTEM
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 WHAT IS CICS?

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CICS / VS CONTROL
 CICS CONTROL PROGRAM AND TABLES

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CICS CONTROL PROGRAM AND TABLES - Contd…

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 CICS START UP

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CICS SHUTDOWN
ROLE OF CICS

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 STRUCTURE OF CICS APPLICATION PROGRAM

Identification Division

Environment Division
 STRUCTURE OF CICS APPLICATION PROGRAM - Contd…

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TERMINATION STATEMENTS

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 IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS

•Transactions

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 CONVERSATIONAL TRANSACTION

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PSEUDO CONVERSATIONAL TRANSACTION

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PROGRAM PREPARATION
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 PROGRAM PREPARATION Contd…

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 TESTING

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 COMMON FORMAT

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ARGUMENT VALUES
RECEIVE COMMAND

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 SEND COMMAND

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 EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS

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HANDLE CONDITION

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IGNORE CONDITION

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 NO HANDLE OPTION

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 FORMATTING TIME AND DATE

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FORMAT TIME COMMAND
FORMAT TIME COMMAND Contd…
 DELAY COMMAND

        

 
READING EXTERNAL DATA - OBJECTIVE
FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW

RDB
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 VSAM DATA STRUCTURES

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 PROGRAM ORGANIZATION

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RECORD IDENTIFICATION

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 READ COMMAND

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EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS
 READ

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 EXAMPLE

         MOVE 50 TO WS  - LEN
         MOVE ‘BAG’ TO REC - KEY.
         EXEC CICS READ
                 DATASET (‘FILEAAA’)
                 INTO (data-area)
                 RIDFLD (REC-KEY)
                 KEYLENGTH (3)
                 GENERIC
                 LENGTH (WS-LEN)
          END-EXEC.

BAG 110
READ COMMAND

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BROWSE

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 STARTBR

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 READNEXT

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READPREV
XCTL COMMAND
PROGRAMS TO PROGRAM TRANSITION

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 ADDRESSABILITY

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CICS QUEUEING FACILITIES
 CICS QUEUEING FACILITIES

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 TRANSIENT DATA QUEUE

 
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 INTRA PARTITION TDQ

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EXTRA PARTITION TDQ

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CICS COMMANDS FOR TDQS
 EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS

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 TEMPORARY STORAGE QUEUE

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WRITEQ TS
READQ TS
DELETEQ TS of TSQ

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 EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS

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