An CICS for the COBOL Programmer: An Advanced Course
Doug Lowe · 1992
From the Publisher: Since 1984, Doug Lowe's 2-part series, CICS for the COBOL Programmer, has taught more than 100,000 COBOL programmers how to use CICS. Now, Doug has updated this series to teach you what you need to know to develop CICS programs today. Here in Part 2, you'll learn all the advanced CICS features you'll use most often, including: how to use browse commands to process a file sequentially or to process VSAM alternate index files how to use data tables (including the shared data tables feature of CICS 3.3) how to code programs that do DB2 or DL/I data base processing how to produce multi-page output using BMS logical message building how to use terminal control commands that let you communicate directly with a terminal, bypassing BMS how to use temporary storage and transient data queues how to use interval control commands to start a task how to control abend and recovery processing how to use the distributed processing features of CICS and more! In addition, this book teachers you what features do similar things and when to use each one. So you won't just learn how to code new functions...you'll also learn how to choose the best CICS solution for each programming problem you face. This book is the second part in a two-part revision of CICS for the COBOL Programmer. Part 1: An Introductory Course covers the basics of CICS, including BMS, pseudo-conversational programming, program design, CICS coding, and testing and debugging.