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Hi,
i am new to CICS. Please tell me difference between PPT & PCT . How different tables are interrelated.

Regards
Vandana

Hello and welcome to the forum,

Learning CICS is too large an undertaking for a forum.

Suggest you spend some time with your cics system support person/group. They will have all of the info on how the tables on your system are configured and maintained.

Hello,

You might also look here for a brief overview of some of what you are looking for:
http://www.itportalindia.com/cics-inter ... tions.html

Hi Dick,

Thanks for Reply... .. This link is useful for me... Dick I am fresher & CICS is totally new for me. I havnt undergone any training for CICS & my responsibility is as a CICS admin. I dont have system support person or group. We are having very stable system,approximate no issues. I want to learn CICS as a system admin, can u suggest what all basic things i must know and please suggest some manual or links or anything then it will be very great help.... Thank You Once again.

Regards
Vandana

Hello,

I havnt undergone any training for CICS & my responsibility is as a CICS admin

This is incredibly irresponsible on the part of your organization. This is not some Windows system that can be installed "out of the box".

We are having very stable system,approximate no issues.

That is no reason to have inadequate skills available to support the environment. Hopefully, nothing critical to the organization or a client is run on that system. . .

These are links to the CICS Language Reference and Programming Guide:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... 0/CONTENTS?

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... 0/CONTENTS?

Hello,
Thanks for the link... I want to know the approach to proceed further..I have other PDFs & links too.... I am having two test regions on my system where I can implement practically ... Please tell me how to proceed further & in which library ( like proclibs are there) I can find CICS related information on system.
What are the things which I must know.....It will be really helpful to me...I want platform to proceed....
Thanks in Advance.

Best Regards
Vandana

Hello,

in which library ( like proclibs are there) I can find CICS related information on system.

Those pieces of info will be site-specific. The various libraries are completely under local control - they could be named anything. Someone set everything up and hopefully, they documented what they were doing.

Please tell me how to proceed further

This would require a "real" cics system programmer. I'm not one. Your organization may need to enroll in a training program or hire someone to come in and do the research as well as bring you up to speed.

PPT, Program Process Table
PCT,Program Control Table

now, clear?

Hello,

now, clear?

No. . . There was no clarification posted. That doesn't describe any relationship between tables - just provides the name of 2 cics tables instead of the the TCA (three character abbreviation)