IBM and LearnQuest Badge Program - CICS
LearnQuest is working together with IBM to offer IBM training courses and award digital badges upon successful completion and attainment of course objectives.
IBM Badge Courses CICS Series offered by LearnQuest:
LearnQuest IBM CICS Foundations
This badge holder has a solid background in the transactions & APIs that are supplied with CICS. Recipients are able to use programming aids that support application development for CICS, including the features of CICSPlex System Manager, CICS Explorer graphical tools, protecting CICS resources, & managing data integrity. Badge holders are also able to use the facilities that enable CICS to connect & communicate with other systems, & how to design & write CICS applications.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, & participation in question & answer sessions and/or assessments associated with:
- Using CEMT, Explorer, transactions, & Rational Developer
- Describing the role of CICS, intercommunication, defining resources, transaction backout & forward recovery, data integrity, VSAM files, queuing, security, user authentication, data access logic, application design, & web services support.
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LearnQuest IBM CICS Systems Tailoring and Administration
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with installing, tailoring, & administering CICS TS for z/OS. The individual has learned how to construct, run, & administer a CICS system; tailor the system by configuring CICS to run applications, defining transactions, programs, files, web services, and other resources that CICS applications need. The earner can administer CICS by using CICS transactions and the CICS Explorer.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Defining & setting up CICS regions
- Identifying CICS procedures & system control functions
- Administering CICS resources
- Describing how CICS uses z/OS Sysplex
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LearnQuest IBM CICS CICSPlex System Manager Administration
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with installing, configuring, &using CICS TS System Manager components and functions. The earner knows how to configure and control each of the functional components of CICSPlex SM, including TOP, WLM, RTA, MON, and BAS.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Describing & installing CPSM
- Describing & using WUI
- Defining & using CICS Explorer to configure CMCI to connect to a CICSplex
- Using BAS to create & manage CICS resources; Describing CPSM API & using BATCHREP
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