Introduction to CICS (An IBM RedBooks Course)

IntermediateCourse

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

Language

English

Topic

Mainframes

Skills You Will Learn

CICS, Reliability, Scalability, Security, Monitoring

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Estimated Effort

10 hours

Platform

SkillsNetwork

Last Update

April 15, 2025

About this Course

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 contexts such as reliability, scalability, security and monitoring to applications written in a variety of programming languages - from Java Enterprise Edition to COBOL.

Course Syllabus

Introduction
What is CICS?
CICS as an application server
Configuring an application in CICS
Scaling a CICS application
Summary

General Information

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