How to activate a transaction in CICS

nagasri83 · New User Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 15 Location: chennai

Hi,

i want to activate a disabled transaction ID in CICS. Please tell me how to do it.

Also tell me what are the factors that affects in activating the transaction ID like RACF permission etc.

Thanks
Naga Srinivas B

gsnvsr · New User Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 40

You could do a CEMT inquire on the transaction id you want and then change the staus to enabled. Not sure about the RACF thingy!!

smiley · New User Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 27

u can start a transaction in a cics region using

CECI START TRA(*)

arunjosephaj · New User Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 20 Location: India

To create a new transaction use CEDA

Jag · New User Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 30 Location: India

Hi friends,

May be RACF will be checking the User ID who is initiating the Transaction is authoraized to access the transaction or not..

Correct me if i am woring

gskulkarni · New User Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 70

If the transaction is an existing one and if you can see it using CEMT I TRA(tran_value) then you can enable teh transaction by replacing DIS or UNA by ENA (The meaning of this is much more than what i have said, but i assume you are a novice to CICS by looking at the way you have asked your question)

When you try to change the transaction status from CEMT, if you get authorization failure message, you need to get in touch with RACF, provide them with your RACF ID, CICS region you are dealing with/transaction ID you are dealing with and ask your manager to approve that request. Once they grant you the access you can enable teh transaction.

graswant · New User Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Singapore

gskulkarni Is right...That's the part of CICS... If you talk about RACF.....This CICS transaction comes under General Resources....you need to define the transaction on RACF to enable it...If RACF is activvated on your shop and everything passes through it...then I guess you won't be able to use the Transaction till the time its not defined on RACF. If you need access to the transaction CEMT...you just need to ask ur mngr's permission and RACF guy will add ur user ID in Access list....That should solve the problem of enabling the transaction through CICS....
I hope the information is helpful....Please let me know if I am wrong....

Earl Haigh · Active User Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 475

you use CEMT to enable the transaction.

RACF has nothing to do with enabling a transaction, unless you
do not have permission to run CEMT.

Why don't you just ask your systems programmer ?

graswant · New User Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Singapore

Earl Haigh...If Security is activated on ur shop....then you have to define ur transactions under General Resources...I am talking about Resources...beat transaction...or STC...everything needs to be defined in RACF so that it goes through Security.......If you talk about just CICS...Remove the RACF Part..then YES YOU ARE RIGHT....CEMT is used to enable transaction........CEDA,CEDB,CEDC are used for defining Resource under RDO(Resource Definition online) and CEMT is used to administer them on CICS........ So its all about nagasri83 requirments....If he needs to enable or disable from CICS..then CEMT is the one which will help him...If he don't have access then RACF guy in his shop will help him.......
Correct me if I am wrong.....

Earl Haigh · Active User Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 475

grasswant

It sounds to me like YOUR shop requires the RACF adminstrator
to enable transactions using CEMT.

Most of the shops I have worked in; for production CICS regions;
RACF people define security access to transactions, and the Systems programmer controls disable / enable of Transaction.

all shops are different, and if nagasri83 doesn't have access
to CEMT , then your right, needs to contact Systems Prog, and/or
RACF person to have resolved.

graswant · New User Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Singapore

Earl Haigh

That's right ...I was telling ya the same....in my shop...We have RACF people who give access on RACF...for resources.....CICS people use CEMT for enabling the transaction....I guess you didn't get my answer correctly...that's what I was explaining nagasri83.........If he needs to enable transactions he need access to CEMT which RACF people in his shop will give.........
We have different people for different work in our shop.....however I take care of both RACF and CICS sometime....as I know both....