CICS

While working with CICS, you may encounter abends. Following are the common abend codes with their description which will help you to resolve the issues − Sr.NoCode & Description1ASRAProgram Check…

The mutual communication that takes place between two or more systems is known as intercommunication. Benefits of Intercommunication The important benefits of intercommunication are as follows − We do not need…

There are different scratch pads which are available in CICS for saving data or to transfer the data between transactions. There are five storage areas which are provided by CICS,…

CICS Program Control Program (PCP) manages the flow of application programs. All the application programs must have an entry in the Processing Program Table. Following are the commands which are…

There are many types of abends and errors which one can face while using a CICS application. Errors can arise due to both hardware of software issues. We will be discussing about…

CICS allows us to access file data in many ways. Most file accesses are random in online system as the transactions to be processed are not batched and sorted into…

As we have discussed in earlier modules, AID keys are known as Attention Identifier Keys. CICS can detect only AID keys. After typing all the input, only when the user…

As of now, we have covered non-conversion and conversion programs. Conversion programs have a major drawback as their think time is considerably high. To overcome this problem, pseudo-conversion programming came into the…

Any application program would require an interface to interact with the CICS. EIB (Execute Interface Block) acts as an interface to allow application programs communicate with the CICS. EIB contains…

BMS receives the data entered by the user and then formats it into a symbolic map area. The application program has access only to the data present in the symbolic…