Murach's Cics For The Cobol Programmer: Training & Reference

Join the more than 150,000 programmers who have learned CICS using CICS books alone. Now, the two-part CICS for the COBOL Programmer has been revised into a single volume that meets today's need for fast-paced training. Readers get all the commands and features that are current today--plus, new chapters on creating web or component-based programs--in just 630, information-packed pages.

Section 1: Get started rightBegin with the essential CICS concepts and terms, then see how all the pieces of a CICS program work together.Section 2: Start writing your own programsHere, you'll learn how to design, code, and test a CICS program. That includes how to create the BMS mapset that defines the user interface.Section 3: Other programming essentialsTemporary storage queues, data editing routines, terminal handling techniques, error processing routines, debugging tools, and more.Section 4: A complete CICS applicationSpecifications, design, BMS mapsets, symbolic maps, and complete CICS/COBOL listings for the programs in an invoicing application. This alone pays for the book Section 5: File and database handlingSpecial-purpose features for handling VSAM files and the skills you need for processing DB2 data in CICS programs.Section 6: Advanced features and skillsCICS control and intercommunication features; how to maintain old code; and modular program design for web-based and distributed applications.