CICS TS - Programming for Recovery 5.6

Duration

3 hours

Overview

This course addresses how CICS code, and general CICS system facilities can be configured to handle errors, and perform recovery.

Audience

Applications and Systems Programmers who need to integrate failure recovery code into their CICS programs. The Syncpointing and Journal course will be of more interest to Systems Programmers and Operations specialists that may be involved with CICS system recovery.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following Interskill courses, or equivalent knowledge:
• CIC TS - Program Control and Communication
• CIC TS - Files and Databases
• CIC TS - Storage and Transient Data
• CIC TS - Programming for Web Access
• CIC TS - Using CICS Transaction Gateway

Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe how CICS programs can be configured to automatically perform error recovery processing
• Explain how CICS recovers from application and CICS failures using syncpointing and the journal

Course Content

Syncpointing and the Journal