| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| The Evolution of Cooperative Processing | p. 1 |
| Client/Server Computing | p. 1 |
| Distributed Processing | p. 1 |
| Cooperative Processing | p. 4 |
| History | p. 4 |
| Why Cooperative Processing with CICS? | p. 10 |
| Basic CICS Functionality | p. 11 |
| CICS Communications | p. 19 |
| Connectivity Options - CICS functionality | p. 20 |
| Connectivity | p. 72 |
| 3151 Terminal Support | p. 80 |
| Physical LAN Configurations | p. 82 |
| Choosing the Right Protocol (LU2, LU6.2 or NetBIOS?) | p. 87 |
| Data Conversion | p. 92 |
| Routing Services and Availability | p. 97 |
| Printing with CICS OS/2 | p. 102 |
| Application Design | |
| Considerations when Moving/Placing Programs and Data | p. 108 |
| Portability of Applications - Host/Workstation | p. 111 |
| Using Relational Databases on the Workstation with CICS | p. 122 |
| Recommended CICS OS/2 Configurations | p. 128 |
| Performance | p. 131 |
| The Operating System | p. 131 |
| CICS OS/2 | p. 138 |
| Communications Manager Tuning | p. 147 |
| Using LAN software with CICS OS/2 | p. 151 |
| Sharing Resources | p. 151 |
| Code Accessed Via the Redirector | p. 154 |
| Code Executing on the LAN Server | p. 157 |
| Inter-program Communications | p. 159 |
| OS/2 Multitasking Concepts | p. 159 |
| External Transaction Initiation (ETI) | p. 161 |
| External Call Interface (ECI) | p. 162 |
| Common User Access (CUA) Interfaces to CICS | p. 171 |
| Using Basic Mapping Support (BMS) | p. 171 |
| Presentation Manager - CICS Interfaces | p. 173 |
| Security | p. 185 |
| CICS Security with LU2 Connections | p. 185 |
| LU6.2 Security | p. 186 |
| Security when "Daisy-chaining" with CICS OS/2 | p. 189 |
| Recovery/Integrity | p. 191 |
| CICS Start-up | p. 193 |
| Synchronization Levels | p. 193 |
| Sync Level 1 Versus Sync Level 2 | p. 197 |
| Cooperative Application Development | p. 199 |
| Developing the Application | p. 199 |
| Using Cross System Product (CSP) to Develop COBOL/CICS Code | p. 205 |
| Testing the Application | p. 206 |
| Transferring Data among CICS Platforms | p. 209 |
| Preparing for Production | p. 210 |
| Systems Operation | p. 213 |
| Systems Management | p. 213 |
| Problem Determination | p. 222 |
| Using OS/2 Facilities | p. 227 |
| Performance Monitoring | p. 236 |
| Appendix A. CICS: A Strategic Product | p. 243 |
| Appendix B. CICS OS/2 and Host CICS Differences | p. 245 |
| Appendix C. CICS Application Programming Using C | p. 249 |
| Appendix D. Sources | p. 255 |
| Appendix E. Recent IBM Announcements | p. 259 |
| Glossary | p. 265 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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