CICS TS V3.1 Migration Class (1 ½ Days)               MCE Inc.

 

This is a similar offering as the IBM CICS TS V3.1 Transition class, but this offering allows the students to pick the teaching units, does not use hands-on labs, and the class will cover the use of the MSK as an integral part of the various teaching units’ migration content. The BigBlueSoftware alliance can provide its clients with no charge customized Migration Support Kits (MSK) that cover all of the tasks required to migrate to CICS TS 3.1 from V4.1, V1.2, V2.2, or V2.3.

  

At the completion of this class, the student should be able to:

·        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 compliance, 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 & MSK

·        Describe the function of CICS-related program products

·        Applying the Migration Support Kit Plan to your migration

 

 

This class can be taught either via the web or as a stand up on-site class (minimum of six students). Price is $550/student for the full one and one-half (1½ ) day version with all teach topics or $450/student for a one-day customized version. See the course outline below for the teaching units’ details.

 

To schedule a class contact Frank Phillips at Phillips Software, or download the class order form, select the teach units you wish to have included in your class, and fax it to D. Fowler, MCE Education Division, 727-593-2570.       

 

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Overview & introduction of new features & functions of CICS TS V3.1

·        CICS integration

·        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 compliance

·        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: Planning for the future

·        future removal of features

·        documentation

·        language environment