CICS Mainframe (LC)

Course Schedule
Day1 - Introduction to CICS Day2 - Basic Mapping Support Day3 - Application Programming Day4 File handling and Temporary Storage Day5 - Control Operations Day6 Project Day7 - Project
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Pre-requisites

MVS and TSO/ISPF subsystem VSAM concepts OLTP concepts Programming in COBOL
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Evaluation Mechanism
Component
Project Module Test

Marks
50 50

Schedule Day 6 & Day 7 Day 8

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References
TITLE CICS for COBOL programmer AUTHOR Doug Lowe PUBLISHER Mike Murach & Associates

CICS Handbook

Kageyama

Tata McGraw Hill

CICS command level Programming

Alida M Jatich

John Wiley and Sons Inc.,

CICS using COBOL

Andrew M. Suhy

Galgotia

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References
CICS Programming Using Cobol Pseudo Conversational programming in CICS -

http://kshop.ad.infosys.com/asp/Search/DispDoc.asp?DocNo=6215

http://kshop.ad.infosys.com/asp/Search/DispDoc.asp?DocNo=58693&KCURati

CICS Overview and useful http://kshop.ad.infosys.com/asp/Search/DispDoc.asp?DocNo=11074&KCURati

CICS - A Beginners guide http://kshop.ad.infosys.com/asp/Search/DispDoc.asp?DocNo=7745&KCURatin

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Introduction to CICS
Day 1

Objectives
What is CICS?
Brief History of CICS Batch and Online Systems CICS system components

Basic concepts of CICS

Concept of a transaction CICS Control Tables Concept of Multitasking, Multithreading and Quasi-reentrancy Command level and Macro level programming Conversational Vs Pseudo-conversational programming

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What is CICS? (Customer Information Control System)

IBM definition: CICS is a DB/DC control system.
TERMINAL
VTAM BTAM TCAM

CICS

VSAM DB2

DASD

Application Programs

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Brief History of CICS

Introduced by IBM in 1968 ran only on IBM mainframes CICS on many platforms Introduction of Transaction Server

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Batch
Jobs are submitted for execution by the processor at later time Absence of any interaction from user Program starts, processes all records and ends Performance measure is throughput When program ABENDS it just ends the program

On-line
Jobs submitted are executed immediately User interaction is an usual thing Program starts, process a record and ends Performance measure is response time When CICS program ABENDS it may bring down the entire system
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Features of CICS
A Data Base/Data Communication (DB/DC) control system Is a generalized transaction processing interface Provides on-line environment in batch OS Is an operating system in itself Runs as a batch job within the OS/390 OS Many languages can be used for developing CICS programs COBOL being the most common
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CICS Environment
Terminals File System

OPERATING SYSTEM Batch Job1 CICS REGION PGM1 PGM2 Batch Job2 Batch Job3
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PGM3

CICS Environment
MVS OS
Database Access method DL/1, DB2 Data Access method VSAM,BDAM Telecommunication Access Method VTAM, TCAM, BTAM

DASD

Terminals

CICS
Monitoring Services

Data handling Services

System Services Application Program Services

Data Communication Services

CICS Application Programs (COBOL, PL/1, Assembly)

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What does CICS do?

Telecommunication Multitasking Data access and transaction control Inter System communication

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IBM 3270 Terminals

Mainly consists of 1. A CRT Monitor and 2. A Keyboard. Examples: 1. 3278 (Monochrome, usually Green, White or Amber) 2. 3279 (7 different colours) Has better Keyboard Layout Keyboard could be configured for foreign languages

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IBM 3270 Terminals

CRT Monitor

Capable of displaying up to 1920 characters along 24 rows and 80 columns.

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IBM 3270 Terminals

Key board
Aid Keys
PF keys PF1 to PF24 & ENTER PA keys PA1 to PA4 & CLEAR Alphabets, numbers punctuation and special characters.

Non-Aid Keys

Allows transfer of data. Doesnt allow transfer of data.

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Some Basic Terminologies

Task: Task is a unit of work specific to a user Transaction: A CICS program cannot be directly invoked and is done through a transaction Difference between transaction and task is, although several users can invoke a transaction, each user initiates his own task
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Some Basic Terminologies

Logical Unit of Work: A piece of work, that should be done completely or not done at all. Application: Is a collection of programs that

accomplish some specific task for the end user

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CICS Nucleus Control Programs

TCP (Terminal Control Program) KCP (Task Control Program) PCP (Program Control Program) FCP (File Control Program) SCP (Storage Control Program) and many more like TSP (Temporary Storage Program) and SIP (System Initialization Program)
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CICS Nucleus Control Tables

TCT (Terminal Control Table) PCT (Program Control Table) PPT (Processing Program Table) FCT (File Control Table) RCT(Resource Control Table) And many more

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Inside CICS
Starting a transaction Flow of control during a transaction
Operating System list screen File Control Program Library

Terminal

Program EMPLIST BMS

Employee File

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Transaction
B021

PCT

PPT Programs PB011 PB021 PB013 Program PB011 PB021 PB031 Location In Storage On Disk In Storage

Transaction B011 B021 B031

CICS Address space

PB011 PB021

Library Load Module PB011 PB031 PB021 PB011 PB031 PB021

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CICS Concepts
Macro level Command level Multitasking Multithreading Quasi reentrancy

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More CICS Concepts

Conversational Operations programming +Display list screen.
+Wait for user input. +Receive list screen. +Read employee records from the employee file. +Display records in formatted form. +Wait for the user input. +Receive the screen. +Depending on the function key populate new list. Copyright 2005, Infosys
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Pseudo-conversational programming
Operations 1. Display list screen. 3. Receive list screen.

Tasks First Second

4. Read employee records from the employee file. 5. Display the records in formatted form. Third 7. Receive the screen.

8. Depending on the function key populate new list. 9. Redisplay the list.
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Pseudo Conversation
Conversation
Sending a message to the terminal and receiving a response from the user is called as one conversation.
Ex.: Display a menu on the screen and receive an option from the user.

Modes of Conversation
Conversational Mode Pseudo-Conversational Mode Non-Conversational Mode

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Advantages of Pseudo -Conversation

Resources are best utilized (The Resources are released as soon as the program is suspended temporarily) Looks as if it is in conversational mode Better response time

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Native CICS Commands

CESN: CEDA: CICS Execute Sign ON CICS Execute Definition and Administration

CEMT: CICS Execute Master Terminal CECI: CEDF: CESF: CICS Execute Command Interpreter CICS Execute Debug Facility CICS Execute Sign OfF

CMAC: CICS Messages for Abend Codes CEBR CICS Execute temporary storage BRowse

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Summary
What is CICS? Why CICS in MVS? How is CICS similar to OS? What are AID, PF, PA keys? What are transactions and tasks? What is Multitasking, Multithreading, Quasireentrancy? What are the ways of starting a transaction? What are the CICS tables? What is conversational and pseudo-conversational programming? What are the native CICS Commands
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Thank You!
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