COMMAREA is something all of us, CICS programmers, are familiar with; it has been an integral part of CICS programing since its introduction in 1975 and continues to do so even today. Then why Channel and Containers now? What are the advantages? Should you switch over? These are the questions which we will try to […]
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CICS Translation Process Demystified
In this article we will try to explore the steps involved in compiling a CICS program and the transformation it undergoes. The compilation of a CICS program is three step process with an additional translation step being included before the Compile and Linkedit steps. CICS Program Compilation The CICS translator reads the COBOL […]
How to submit a JCL from CICS
There are couple of ways in which you can submit a JOB from your CICS application program , the simplest way to do this is by using CICS Spool Interface commands to write your JCL directly to JES Spool , we will explore this in detail here, and also by using an extra partition TDQ […]