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Book:   Designing and Programming CICS Applications
Subject:   Designing and Programming CICS Applications Review
Date:   2000-08-28 17:06:10
From:   Jim Gillard
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

The book offers a reasonably good introduction to CICS programming on the mainframe. There are better and more complete guides.


The JAVA and VB WEB interfaces appear to be functional and can probably be used as templates for coding server side interfaces. There is a good section on setting up the Web Server components.


What I missed, and have been unable to find anywhere, was a presentation of using native CICS WEB or DOCUMENT calls. I guess I'm forced to examine the support packs which have limited explanations of what they are doing. Another missing piece is an example of modifying generated HTML from BMS maps to tailor the GUI generated into a more acceptable format. I've looked at the samples from the IBM seminars and they are too simplistic for most applications.


So, if you have an existing CICS app on which you want to quickly put on a GUI interface (customized), this book won't help and I don't know where you can find one.



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