1. Understanding CICS and Your Role Company Name Date - Time CICS TS - Introduction 1 hour PowerPointOur CICS Applications and Data PowerPoint Our CICS Systems Webinar Understanding CICS and Your Role = Datatrain Course Modules CICS TS and Transaction Processing Concepts CICS Structure and Intercommunication CICS Data Sets Introduction to CICS Explorer 1 hour Manipulating CICS Explorer Data 1 hour 1 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

2. About You BackgroundNumbers Programmers4 Operators1 2 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

3. Objectives Questions from the Course So Far Who Supports CICS? Current and Future CICS Priorities and Directions 3 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

4. Clarification of Previous Material General comments received Technical queries on CICS 4 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

5. Who Supports CICS? IT Infrastructure Mainframe Support Systems Programming Application Development UNIX Support Windows Support Security Help Desk (ABC) 5 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

6. Application Programmers John Smith Manager Fred Blue CICS / COBOL Helen Gold COBOL Alan Green CICS / Java David Grey Java Dan Silver Java/C 6 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

7. Systems Programmers Dan Jones Manager Jane Sampson z/OS / CICS Paul Simson CICS 7 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

8. CICS Priority 1: Keep CICS Systems Running Goal: Zero Unscheduled CICS outage. Challenges: Batch processing, increased CICS usage, application abends. Past Projects: Workload Sharing, Application Reliability, Batch EXCI. Current Projects: CICS performance tuning, VSAM LSR. Future Projects: Temporary Storage Sharing, CICS Upgrade 8 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

9. CICS Priority 2: Get the Most From CICS Goal: Open up CICS applications and data. Challenges: Security, connectivity, control. Past Projects: CICS Sockets, EXCI, CICS TG, Websphere MQ Current Projects: Websphere MQ Future Projects: CICS Web Services, SOAP. 9 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

10. Summary Who Supports CICS? The Application Programmers and Systems Programmers CICS Priorities and Projects 10 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence

11. Questions CICS TS - Introduction 1 hour PowerPointOur CICS Applications and Data PowerPoint Our CICS Systems Webinar Understanding CICS and Your Role = Datatrain Course Modules CICS TS and Transaction Processing Concepts CICS Structure and Intercommunication CICS Data Sets Introduction to CICS Explorer 1 hour Manipulating CICS Explorer Data 1 hour 11 |Copyright © Interskill Learning Pty Ltd 2011 – Commercial in Confidence