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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to CICS | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Essentials of a Business Application | |
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| Business Applications as Creators of Value | |
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| Using CICS for Business Applications | |
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| Designing Business Applications | |
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| The Heart of a Business Application | |
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| How CICS Can Help the Application Designer | |
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| Developing the Components of a Business Application | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| Introducting the Sample Application | |
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| The Business Case | |
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| The Design of the Sample Application | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| The COBOL Business Logic Component | |
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| Designing the Business Logic | |
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| Understanding What COBOL Components Need to Do | |
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| Incorporating CICS Design Guidelines | |
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| Handling Data | |
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| Designing the Individual Functions | |
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| Mapping the Functions to CICS Programs | |
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| Looking at the Business Logic Programs | |
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| Summary | |
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| Programming the COBOL Business Logic | |
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| Writing CICS Programs in COBOL | |
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| Handling Files | |
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| Saving Data: Using a Scratchpad Facility | |
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| Controlling Programs | |
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| Abending a Transaction | |
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| Queuing Facilities: Temporary Storage and Transient Data | |
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| Handling Errors | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| The CICS Java Component | |
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| Designing the CICS Java Component | |
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| Background to Java and CORBA in a CICS Environment | |
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| Understanding What This Component Needs to Do | |
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| Describing a Customer Account Object with IDL | |
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| Design of the CICS Java Component | |
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| Implementing CICS Java Components | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| Programming the CICS Java Component | |
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| Tools | |
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| Setting Up Your Development Environment | |
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| Creating and Compiling the IDL Definition | |
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| Writing the Server Implementation Class | |
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| Exporting and Binding the Server Application to the CICS Region | |
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| Creating the CORBA Client | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| The Web Component | |
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| Designing the Web Component | |
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| Understanding What the Component Needs To Do | |
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| Designing the Web Interface | |
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| Designing the Web Server Components | |
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| Designing the CORBA Client Implementation | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| Programming the Web Component | |
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| Tools | |
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| Building the Web Site | |
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| Programming the Web Server Components | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| The 3270 Interface | |
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| Designing the Presentation Logic | |
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| Understanding What the Presentation Logic Component Needs to Do | |
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| Interface Design Principles | |
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| Incorporating CICS Design Guidelines | |
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| Designing the Functions | |
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| Programming the 3270 Presentation Logic Component | |
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| Defining Screens with Basic Mapping Support (BMS) | |
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| Symbolic Description Maps | |
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| Sending a Map to a Terminal | |
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| Local Printing (NACT03): Requests for Printing | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| The Visual Basic Component | |
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| Designing the Visual Basic Component | |
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| Understanding What the Component Needs to Do | |
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| Designing the Graphical User Interface | |
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| Designing the Print Function | |
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| Designing the Online Help | |
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| Designing the Data Validation | |
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| Designing Access to and Control of the CICS Application | |
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| Designing Error Handling | |
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| Programming the Visual Basic Program | |
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| Writing the Graphical User Interface | |
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| Implementing the Print Function | |
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| Implementing the Online Help | |
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| Implementing the Data Validation Code | |
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| Accessing Applications on the CICS Server | |
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| Communicating with CICS | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| CICS and MQSeries | |
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| Designing an Application to Use the MQSeries-CICS Bridge | |
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| Background to MQSeries | |
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| The MQSeries-CICS Bridge | |
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| Designing the Graphical User Interface | |
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| Designing the Java Application | |
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| Configuring MQSeries | |
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| Running CICS DPL Programs | |
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| Why Design It This Way? | |
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| What's Next... | |
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| Programming the MQSeries-CICS Bridge | |
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| Building the Java GUI | |
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| Coding the Java Application | |
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| Setting Up MQSeries and CICS | |
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| Debugging | |
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| Debugging in CICS | |
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| CICS-Supplied Transactions | |
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| EDF: Execution Diagnostic Facility | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Configuring Your CICS for OS/390 Environment | |
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| List of CD-ROM Files | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |