what is BACKGROUND transaction?

inamadugu · New User Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Delhi

What is a Background transaction in CICS?

vasanthkumarhb · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject:

Hi...

Check this out, it may helps you.........

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.cics.ts31.doc/dfha3/dfha357.htm

Regard's
Vasanth......

inamadugu · New User Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Delhi

Hi Vasanth,
Thank you for your reply. But I did not find the thing I required in that. Can you please be more specific on what actually is this Background Transaction mean? where and how it is gonna happen?

enrico-sorichetti

In CICS a background TASK/transaction,
is a TASK which is not ATTACHED/RELATED/ASSOCIATED to a TERMINAL.
( I prefer ATTACHED )

The referred link gave a very good explanation of a
background transaction!!

What else were You looking for ??

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

Hello,

TG Murphy · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject:

We use MQSeries. It is a messaging product from IBM.

Data arrives in queues and gets processed. Almost always, we process this data in Background CICS.

Apart from the MQseries stuff, the systems programmers here are very reluctant to allow us to code background CICS transactions. They are worried that some transactions will flood the region with started background transactions...