Tutorials

The CICS® tutorials provide step-by-step instructions to help you learn about some of the features in CICS by using supplied samples.

IP interconnectivity (IPIC) learning path
This learning path, intended for CICS system programmers, provides an overview of IP interconnectivity (IPIC), a type of connection that allows programs to connect to CICS regions in different MVS images and sysplexes using the industry standard communications protocol, TCP/IP. It explains how to create an IPIC connection between two CICS regions using CICS or CICSPlex SM resources, how to migrate existing connections to IPIC, and provides a summary with links to further reading.
Using the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface
This section describes how to use the CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface.
Event processing tutorials
The event processing tutorials provide you with step-by-step instructions to implement some simple event processing examples.
Atom feed tutorials
The Atom feed tutorials provide you with step-by-step instructions to implement some simple Atom feeds and collections from unstructured and structured data. The tutorials include creating feeds from temporary storage queues and VSAM files to display in a web browser.
Managing and monitoring your CICS workload
This learning path provides an overview of the CICS and z/OS® components, and some separate tools, which you can use for workload management and performance monitoring of your CICS regions. The primary audience for the learning path is CICS system administrators, and anyone who is involved with managing or assessing the performance of a CICS system.
Sysplex optimized workload management learning path
This learning path provides an overview of sysplex optimized workload management.
Threadsafe learning path
This learning path provides an overview of open transaction environment (OTE) threadsafe options. Using the OTE you can obtain throughput improvements on multiprocessors, providing that the application code is threadsafe. The options available to get different types of threadsafe applications to use the OTE are explained and a summary is provided with links to further reading.
Using the CICS Explorer
Using the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface