New and Updated Courses Released by Interskill Learning

The entire CICS curriculum has been updated to version 5.3! These courses contain many new features and training benefits for CICS operators and programmers.

We have also added 4 new assessments to our collection for PL/I and COBOL.

As always, existing students receive these courses with their qualifying license/subscription. Be sure to enroll for this new curriculum when you login to the Learning Management System training portal.

CICS TS Operations Series

CICS TS - Introduction

CICS - Explorer Fundamentals

CICS TS - Controlling CICS Operations

CICS Command Simulations

CICS TS Programmers Series

CICS - Programming Basics

Program Control and Communication

Files and Databases

Storage and Transient Data

Programming for Web Access

Using CICS Transaction Gateway

CICS Terminal Communications

Using SDF II To Maintain CICS TS Maps

Programming for Recovery

Debugging CICS Programs

New Assessments

COBOL Basics Assessment

COBOL Advanced Assessment

PL/I Basics Assessment

PL/I Advanced Assessment

COMING SOON! – Courses on Blockchain Technology

Note: The current CICS Curriculum will be retired on October 31, 2017. Students please be sure to use the new CICS 5.3 curriculum. learn more at https://interskill.com/recently-released.html

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