Offered By: IBM
Introduction to CICS (An IBM RedBooks Course)
You’ve probably interacted with CICS already today. Perhaps you checked your bank balance or bought a bagel for breakfast? CICS is used by enterprises to provide the services that the world depends on, but you may have never even heard of it before. This course introduces CICS, an unparalleled mixed language application server. We explore what an application server is, what it provides to developers and what distinguishes CICS as a mixed language application server. Through the use of a illustrative application, we explain how CICS can provide shared programming context
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At a Glance
You’ve probably interacted with CICS already today. Perhaps you checked your bank balance or bought a bagel for breakfast? CICS is used by enterprises to provide the services that the world depends on, but you may have never even heard of it before. This course introduces CICS, an unparalleled mixed language application server. We explore what an application server is, what it provides to developers and what distinguishes CICS as a mixed language application server. Through the use of a illustrative application, we explain how CICS can provide shared programming context
About this Course
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- What is CICS?
- CICS as an application server
- Configuring an application in CICS
- Scaling a CICS application
- Summary
General Information
Recommended Skills Prior to Taking this Course
Estimated Effort
10 Hours
Level
Intermediate
Skills You Will Learn
CICS, Monitoring, Reliability, Scalability, Security
Language
English
Course Code
MF0203EN