Importance of "No handle" condition

deepu.surya · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 10 Location: hyderabad

Can somebody explain the importance of NO HANDLE in the following code. what will it do exaclty?

EXEC CICS SEND ERASE FREEKB
MAPSET('Testmap')
MAP('Testmap')
WAIT
NOHANDLE
END-EXEC.

CICS Guy · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:18 pm

NOHANDLE option
You can use the NOHANDLE option with any command to specify that you want no action to be taken for any condition or AID resulting from the execution of that command. For further information about the NOHANDLE option, see RESP and NOHANDLE options the CICS Application Programming Guide.

Handling exception conditions by in-line code
This method of handling exception conditions is recommended for new applications ..., it involves either using the NOHANDLE option or specifying the RESP option on EXEC CICS commands, which prevents CICS performing its default exception handling. Additionally, the RESP option makes the value of the exception condition directly available to your program, for it to take remedial action.

deepu.surya · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 10 Location: hyderabad

When we specify a NOHANDLE condition....and then if we dont handle it in our application program...what would be the result??

EXEC CICS SEND ERASE FREEKB
MAPSET('typoiuy')
MAP('typoiuy')
WAIT
NOHANDLE
END-EXEC.

if it is defined this way...what will be the case if we dont handle this in our program and then we get a ABEND.

CICS Guy · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:52 pm

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