SUMMARY:   This course is designed to help CICS System Administration personnel to understand CICS from initialization through to shutdown, including maintenance, performance and availability. AUDIENCE:   Personnel responsible for CICS Administration experienced application programmers, system programmers, and managers. PREREQUISITES:   The participant should have CICS experience. DURATION:   5 Days APPROACH:   This class is taught by lecture with hands-on workshops. OBJECTIVES:   Start, run, and shut down a CICS system Perform CICS administration duties Understand resource naming conventions Use CEDA,CEDB, AND CEDC to manage CICS resources on-line Maintain Macro tables Understand performance considerations COURSE CONTENT:   INTRODUCTION CICS Overview CICS Connectivity to other systems Terminology COMPONENTS Resource Definitions Online BATCH CEDA DFHCSDUP Macro table generation System Initialization Table Data Sets INITIALIZATION Types Steps during initialization JCL and start up messages CEMT (master Terminal) PLT STORAGE Construction of the address space Dynamic Storage Areas Subsystem storage protection/Transaction isolation Command Protection Storage Violations Short on Storage Dynamic storage maintenance SUPPLIED TRANSACTIONS CEMT CEBR CECI CEDA CMAC CETR TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT PARAMETERS THAT MANAGE TRANSACTIONS MXT TRANSCLASS ICVR TRANSACTION ATTACHING AND DISPATCHING System vs. User transactions Dispatching process (multiple TCB) ICV Transaction Definitions/ Autoinstall Program/Map Definitions/Autoinstall Attach flow COMMUNICATIONS 3270 Terminal definitions/autoinstall Connections and Sessions CICSPlex/Multi Region Option SYSPLEX/WORKLOAD MANAGER TYPES OF DATA VSAM files Local Shared Resources Temporary Storage Transient Data System Log Local and Global catalogs User Journals Data base -DB2, DBCTL PROBLEM RESOLUTION System Dumps -IPCS Transaction Dumps Trace Internal Auxiliary GTF SHUT DOWN Types PLTSD/XLT STATISTICS STAT transaction SMF records Summary and Detailed Statistics BM/08