MFCIC41

DATES:

1. New Features and Functions
   • Using the CICS Service Flow Feature, enable creation of adapters for integrating business applications to provide effective re-use of existing assets.
   • Learn how to integrate CICS Transaction Server with modern development environments.
2. Web Services
   • Allow CICS applications to be exposed as web services.
   • Understand how a CICS application can participate in a heterogeneous web services environment as a service requester, as a service provider, or both.
3. HTTP Support
   • Change the configuration information in the IBM HTTP Server to provide service using the CICS business logic interface.
   • Learn how to redirect an HTTP request for CICS as an HTTP server to another URL using a URIMAP definition.
4. OTE Exploitation: OTE - Open Transaction Environment
   • Become knowledgeable with a new class of TCB: Task Control Blocks; called an open TCB.
   • Learn how an open TCB can be used by threadsafe applications.
   • Learn that an open TCB can be assigned to a CICS task for the life of the CICS task and multiple OTE Task Control Blocks can run concurrently in CICS.
   • Learn that a threadsafe application is defined as a program which uses appropriate serialization techniques, such as compare and swap or enqueue, when accessing any shared resource(s).
   • Recognize that a threadsafe application must be capable of running concurrently on multiple TCBs, and must not rely on quasi-reentrancy to serialize access to shared resources and storage.
5. Enhanced Inter-program Data Transfer
   • Learn that containers are named blocks of data designed for passing information between programs; they are functional COMMAREAs.
   • Recognize that programs can pass any number of containers between each other.
   • Learn that containers are grouped together in sets called channels; a channel is analogous to a parameter list.
   • Establish guidelines for designing a channel.
6. Enterprise Management
   • Become familiar with IBM’s implementation of the ARM: Application Response Measurement standard.
   • Learn how EWLM: Enterprise Workload Manager extends the capabilities of the z/OS Workload Manager to all members of the IBM eServer family.
   • Understand how EWLM can be used for end-to-end workload monitoring in distributed environments which contain multiple, interacting, server products.
7. Security Enhancements
   • Become familiar with WSS-Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security.
   • Recognize the set of enhancements to SOAP messaging which provide message integrity and confidentiality.
   • Examine how WSS: SOAP Message Security is extensible and can accommodate a variety of security models and encryption technologies.
   • Understand how password expiration management has been enhanced to include the ESI: External Security Interface.
   • Recognize that the ESI is not part of CICS Transaction server for z/OS; however, it allows a non-CICS application to invoke services provided by advanced APPC PEM.
   • Become aware of the fact that ESI provides additional functions which make it easier for a non-CICS application to change and verify a password.
8. Installation and Migration Considerations
   • Plan for moving to a client/server environment.
   • Become familiar with the installation and migration procedures in a CICS/Db2 environment.
9. CICS Tools
   • Become familiar with the new features of CICS Explorer.
   • Understand and apply the featureset of CICS Performance Analyzer.

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