Over the past few years, z/OS® has moved towards the use of four byte ids. In parallel, CICS® has adopted the same concept to become compliant. This session will give you the opportunity to answer any and all questions you may still have and give you a better understanding of the implementation.

This presentation will present a technical overview of the changes to CICS® to CICS connectivity with TCP/IP. CICS 3.2 allows CICS to CICS communications to use TCP/IP as a transport for processing Distributed Program Link requests.

Debugging has become a lost art. This is the session for you if you want to build your CICS® debugging skills. This session will concentrate where CICS Level2 has seen the most problems, File Control. You will learn how to debug FCIOWAITs, Private String waits, and Enqueues.

CICS® Web services gives new life to established applications and a new delivery vehicle for vital business applications. This session describes techniques for investigating problems in CICS Web services processing, and discusses the most common errors seen by the Support Center.

This presentation provides an introduction to techniques used to examine CICS System dumps using IPCS (Interactive Problem Control System). Several types of dumps will be discussed and excerpts from sample dumps will illustrate the commands/concepts associated with the IPCS and the CICS verb exit.