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Join the more than 100,000 programmers who have learned CICS from Doug Lowe's two-part CICS for the COBOL Programmer. Whether you're developing new programs or maintaining old ones, you too can use these books to quickly teach yourself all you need to know about CICS.Part 1 zeroes in on the basics of CICS, leaving aside the features you won't use right away. You'll learn: -- the meanings of the critical terms and concepts that apply to CICS-- how to use basic mapping support (BMS)-- pseudo-conversational programming...what it is and why you have to use it-- the CICS commands you'll use in every program-- how to use VS COBOL II features that simplify CICS programming-- how to design a CICS program using event-driven design, a design model that takes advantage of the pseudo-conversational programming technique so you can code programs more quickly and easily-- how to write programs that run efficiently on your system-- how to use IBM-supplied transactions like CEMT, CECI, and CEDF to simplify testing and debugging-- how to interpret a transaction dump for a VS COBOL II program