CICS: A How-to for COBOL Programmers - Softcover

Kirk, David Shelby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0894354280 ISBN 13: 9780894354281

Publisher: Tarquin Publications, 1992

Synopsis

Here's a comprehensive and useful book on CICS for COBOL programmers at all levels. Kirk focuses on techniques, structures, and style. If your're new to CICS, use this book as a CICS tutorial and then, as you gain mastery of CICS, as a handy desk reference. CICS pros can use it for review and reference, and for guidance in migrating to COBOL II.

About this title

From the Author

This book is designed to introduce CICS to COBOL programmers
This book was written to allow a COBOL programmer to begin using CICS to develop or maintain applications in the COBOL language. No prior knowledge is assumed of any online transaction manager.

To help the reader get started, the first exercise is a simple line-oriented transaction. This is followed by more extensive applications that use online screens and their management.

The most thorough sections (because the material would be new to the reader) focus on the creation of online screens (called MAPs) and the use of IBM's builtin utilities for debugging and testing CICS commands. The inclusion of these CICS utilities is unique and helps the beginning CICS programmer to practice writing CICS commands separate from within a program.

All examples are written in COBOL II and use top-down decomposition techniques to demonstrate simplified programming techniques.

In summary, the book is designed to be a quick start for the COBOL programmer who needs to learn and master CICS fundamentals quickly.

From the Back Cover

What This Book Will Do For You Need to learn CICS in a hurry? Whether at work or in the classroom, CICS: A How–To for COBOL Programmers gives you all the skills you need to master CICS fast. Written for MVS programmers and with an emphasis on COBOL II, this book takes you through the basics and a whole lot more. You ll refer to this book time and time again to solve everyday CICS programming problems.

• Easy–to–understand examples make sure you gain proficiency in the most commonly used features of CICS
• Kirk s emphasis on the concepts of CICS, such as transaction design, computer dialogues, structured programming in transaction design, programming style, program debugging, and efficiency, allow you to understand fully the more advanced topics you encounter on the job

This invaluable tool is the one CICS book you cannot be without.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tarquin Publications
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0894354280
• ISBN 13: 9780894354281
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432