JCL to open a CICS region

ashok_uddaraju · New User Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Location: US

Hi,

I need a jcl to open a CICS region and type a transcation in it.

Regards,
Ashok

expat · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:54 pm

Yes, and ..................................................
That was a statement, what is the question.

Do you not have any other CICS regions that you can reference to find what you need ?

ashok_uddaraju · New User Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Location: US

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion.
I am looking for a sample jcl which can give me an idea of how to write a jcl to open a CICS region and invoke a transcation.

Regards,
Ashok

expat · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:15 pm

How do you mean "open" a CICS region. To start it up, just to access the region, or both.

As asked before, do you not have any examples at your shop which already do this to use as a reference ?

ashok_uddaraju · New User Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Posts: 72 Location: US

I need to open this region and access the region as well and here is a sample jcl

//P4113A JOB (),,CLASS=F,MSGCLASS=X,NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//STEP40 EXEC PRODBIF,ID=GP,OPTION=S,TYPE=R,NAME=SCNN

expat · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:32 pm

So why can you not amend or create a new proc to do what you want.

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:00 pm

CICS regions are not files -- they cannot be opened and closed like files. They are either running or not running, period.

And while you can use a batch console command to start a CICS transaction from batch, you do need to be aware that such a command is handled by the JES converter / interpreter and therefore is executed before your job ever starts running. You cannot put multiple commands into a job stream and expect them to run after a certain step has executed -- the commands just don't work like that.

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:19 pm

Hello,

MBabu · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:43 pm

by "open a region" I think Ashok means to open a virtual terminal emulator and connect to the region and then "type a transaction in it" means to enter something into that session programatically and respond to outputs, etc.

There are methods to run terminal sessions in or from batch. The Host Access Toolkit from IBM is one example of running a 3270 session in batch, starting a PCOMM session on a remote PC which then uses EHLLAPI is another, but none of these are trivial to use or easy to maintain. I think we need a much better description of the problem.