how to invoke a cics transaction through batch job

Abhinav Chandra · New User Joined: 13 Oct 2012 Posts: 29 Location: India

Hi, This is my very first post. I have been following the post of this forum and they are really very helpful.

I am having elementary knowledge of CICS. I want to invoke a already existing cics transaction though a batch job and also want to feed the required inputs needed in that transaction. Will the below code will work or not. Please suggest ..

EXEC CICS START
TRANSID('TRN1')
TIME(173000)
TERMID('STA3')
FROM(DATAFLD)
LENGTH(100)

Input values that needs to be passed is name and emp-id, as mentioned below-
01 DATAFLD.
05 NAME PIC X(15) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ'.
05 EMP-ID PIC X(3) VALUE 'XYZ'.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:01 pm

Abhinav Chandra · New User Joined: 13 Oct 2012 Posts: 29 Location: India

any suggestion on how to approach for this requirement ...

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:36 pm

what is that You did not understand in my previous reply ???

You are just asking us to waste our time
giving suggestions on something that Your Support has the final word about.

ask them

if You had searched the forums You would have found quite a few topics dealing with the issue .

or googling for EXCI
would have lead You here
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.doc/pdf/dfhtmc00.pdf

Robert Sample · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:28 pm

Your basic problem is that CICS transactions work in a very different way than batch programs (CICS transactions, for example, do not open or close files whereas batch programs MUST open and close the files used).

There are defined ways, such as FEPI or EXCI, to execute CICS transactions from other systems or batch programs. However, if you write EXEC CICS followed by anything in a program, it is a CICS program that cannot run in batch.

Starting a CICS transaction from a batch program is NOT something for someone with "elementary knowledge of CICS" to attempt. You need to find someone with some solid CICS experience to help you.

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Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:47 pm

Another product; MacKinney Batch to CICS -

www.mackinney.com/products/mainframe-utilities/mackinney_batch_cics.html