IMS DC Application Programming

Audience

The course is designed for systems analysts and application programmers.

Prerequisites

COBOL or PL/1 programming experience as well as program edit and submission knowledge.

Duration

2-3 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

This course introduces the student to the concepts of data communication in IMS and covers the programming components necessary for coding on-line programs.

Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:

• Write a typical Message Processing Program.
• Describe the differences in conversational programs.
• Describe the useful facilities of IMS DC.
• Write and test a simple PSB.
• Use BTS to test an MPP.
• Code and use simple MFS

Course Content

Message flow and scheduling
Programming to access Message Queues
Introduction to MFS coding
Conversational programs
PSB coding
Testing