AUDIENCE:   This course is for personnel needing to gain an understanding of CICS Channels and Containers. PREREQUISITES:   Delegates are expected to have prior CICS Application programming experience. DURATION:   2 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   This course is based around a CICS – WEB Application designed to submit Batch Jobs to JES. The course encourages the conversion of this application from COMMAREA to Channel/Container format. The application comprises 6 programs and has both a COBOL and PLI version. Upon completion of this course attendees will appreciate how CICS Channels and Containers are a viable alterative to COMMAREA, and be able to: - Describe Channels and Containers, and when to use them - Code relevant API statements associated with Channels & Containers - Explain data conversion - Explain the scope of a Channel - Describe some of the performance considerations COURSE CONTENT:   Introduction Some basic questions    What is a Channel?    What is a Container?    Why use Channels and Containers? Traditional COMMAREA    Characteristics    Constraints and Bypasses COMMAREA vs CHANNEL a superficial view Using Channels and Containers   Defining a Container – Channel Method    Sample PUT CONTAINER use   Container Data Conversion   Defining a Container – BTS Method   Exercise 1 – Create a CONTAINER Passing a CONTAINER via a CHANNEL    Using CHANNEL with LINK    Using CHANNEL with XCTL    Using CHANNEL with START    Using CHANNEL with RETURN   Channel Scope Exercise 2 – Pass a CHANNEL Receiving a CONTAINER from a CHANNEL    Single CONTAINER situation    Sample GET CONTAINER use Exercise 3 – Receive a CONTAINER. So COMMAREA or CHANNEL Container Manipulation   MOVE a Container from one Channel to another   DELETE a Container   Processing multiple CONTAINERS     STARTBROWSE     GETNEXT     ENDBROWSE What is the CHANNEL name is unknown? Performance Considerations Recommendations TS11/09