Cics Command Level Programming (Wiley Professional Computing) (Hardcover)

by Alida M. Jatich (Author)

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Product Description
This text aims to teach the reader how to design, code and test CICS applications in both the mainframe and the OS/2 environments. It provides the tools and techniques in step-by-step format, as well as the concepts behind those techniques. It explains how CICS relates to the hardware, the operating system, the data and the applications. The book includes hands-on exercises and sample programs that readers can use as a basis for creating new applications. The author explains how terminal devices work, how they are connected to CICS, and how to use them in an application. The vital topics of VSAM and SQL are covered in depth, as are communications between program modules and between CICS regions and systems. New material includes CICS OS/2 and associated tools and techniques, CUA (Common User Access) and SQL, as well as the new mainframe releasers CICS/MUS 2.1.1 and CICS/ESA 3.1.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 602 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; 2 Sub edition (June 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471528617
• ISBN-13: 978-0471528616
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,864,814 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best written how-to computer books, August 9, 1997

By	[e-mail] (Alexandria, Va) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cics Command Level Programming (Wiley Professional Computing) (Paperback)

I, had to becomes a CICS expert in a couple of days. This book is unbelievably easy to follow. My complememts to Alida M. Jatich. I've learned almost all my computer skills through books. This one ranks up there with Stern and Stern's 'Structured COBOL' and McQuillen & Princes 'MVS Assembler Language

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Instructional Tech manual, March 15, 2001

By	Ronald G Fair (Robesonia, Pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cics Command Level Programming (Wiley Professional Computing) (Paperback)

Overall the book delivers what it promises. Being placed in a position where I had to assume responsibility for an existing CICS system with no formal training or other assistance in the applications programming area, I found the book to be a rather clear and concise presentation of CICS applications programming and a definite aid in understanding why the production application was structured the way it was. The book relates to an actual production application and presents the fundamentals quite well. The screen development and interaction between screens and a Cobol processing program are understandable and presented rather well. I did find the index way too short to use as a quick reference. I finally created my own which solved the problem. Unfortunately the figures and examples are too often presented on different pages resulting in paging back and forth. Having them on opposing pages would make the refrencing of examples and text a lot easier. I would also have liked if the examples of code printed would have had the sequence numbers included.