Course description: CICS Transaction Server for zOS Transition from V2 to V3.1
 
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Course Code UNC98 Skill Level Basic
Duration 3 days Delivery Type Classroom (Hands-on Lab)
Course Type Public or Private on-site IACET Credits
Public Price USD $1,100
 
Special Note
 
Examine the migration from CICS Transaction Server (TS) for z/OS Version 2 to CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3.1, which delivers major enhancements that strengthen its support for CICS integration, application transformation, and enterprise management. New features include Web services, Open Transaction Environment (OTE) exploitation, and the CICSPlex System Manager (CPSM) Web User Interface (WUI). Review easy-to-understand release planning information in the areas of operating system integration, resource definition changes, application support planning, monitoring, and statistics enhancements. More specifically, explore details of the new enhancements to CICS TS for z/OS, including Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) support and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The CICS-related IBM program products are presented as an overview.
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Audience
 
This is a basic course for individuals interested in the new features of CICS TS for z/OS V3.1; especially for those needing product details to begin planning for the installation of the new release. This includes CICS system programmers, CICS Information Technology (IT) managers, and architects.
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Skills Taught
 
  • List the features and enhancements to CICS TS for z/OS V3.1
  • Describe CICS Web services support
  • Identify and plan for the following features and enhancements: HTTP V1.1 complience, SOAP feature, pipelining, chunking, channels and containers, Web Application Programming Interface (API) for outbound HTTP requests, CPSM, and new utility programs: DFHLS2WS and DFHWS2LS
  • State the hardware and software requirements of CICS TS for z/OS
  • Locate CICS technical information using the IBM Information Center
  • Describe the function of CICS-related program products
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Course outline
 
Unit 1: Overview and introduction of new features and functions of CICS TS V3.1
  • CICS intergration
  • application transformation
  • enterprise management

Unit 2: Web services

  • Web services artifacts
  • SOAP feature
  • Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
  • WebSphere Studio tooling
  • CICS utility programs: DFHLS2WS and DFHWS2LS
  • Web services binding file

Unit 3: HTTP support

  • HTTP V1.1 complience
  • CICS as an HTTP server: URIMAP resource definition
  • CICS as an HTTP client: EXEC CICS commands for outbound support
  • CICS support for non-HTTP requests
  • persistent connections
  • pipelining
  • chunking
  • TCPIPSERVICE definition change
  • code conversion changes
  • Web API for outbound HTTP requests

Unit 4: OTE exploitation

  • OTE Stager 3 implementation
  • Threadsafe API's
  • XPLlink for C and C++ programs

Unit 5: Enhanced Inter-program Data Transfer

  • > 32K data exchange
  • Containers - COBOL, JAVA
  • Channels - COBOL, JAVA
  • Business Transaction Services (BTS) containers
  • global user exit (GLUE) changes
  • task-related user exit (TRUE) changes
  • user-replaceable program (URM) changes
  • problem determination

Unit 6: Enterprise management

  • CPSM enhancements: WUI functional enhancements
  • CPSM enhancements: WUI usability enhancements
  • CPSM enhancements: Simplification of Business Application Services (BAS) in WUI
  • CPSM enhancements: Batchrep enhancements
  • CPSM enhancements: Support for CICS new Functions

Unit 7: Security enhancements

  • Transport Layer Security (TLS)
  • cipher suites - 128 and 256 bit encryption
  • mixed case passwords
  • performance enhancements
  • changes to revocation process

Unit 8: Installation and migration considerations

  • software prerequisites
  • general external changes
  • functional changes

Unit 9: Integrator adapter for z/OS

  • MQ Integrator Agent for CICS (MQIAC) runtime
  • enhancements
  • processing patterns

Unit 10: CICS tools

  • CICS business event publisher
  • CICS interdependency analyzer
  • CICS integrator adapter
  • IBM session manager
  • CICS Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) recovery

Unit 11: Planing for the future

  • future removal of features
  • documentation
  • language environment
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