SAME TERMINAL-SAME CICS TRANSACTION INVOKATION

Amit_Singh47 · New User Joined: 15 May 2013 Posts: 22 Location: India

Can same/multiple users invoke the same CICS transaction from same terminal?

Garry Carroll · Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 12:47 pm

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 1:07 pm

I kind of disagree...

You cannot have two user logged-on on the same terminal at the same time

the construct same-terminal multiple-users

is flawed/murky to start with, each different user will have to logon/do some work/logoff

furthermore in some organization there is a strict connection between the user and the <devices> he/she is allowed to use to logon to the system

at the end everything depends on the security setup

Garry Carroll · Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 1:16 pm

Amit_Singh47 · New User Joined: 15 May 2013 Posts: 22 Location: India

thanks garry and enrico

appreciate ur help

Bill Woodger · Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 2:59 pm

Well, that was a surprising end to the topic.

Does it really imply that you thought it was not possible to have the same user using the same transaction from the same terminal (presumably only on the same day, rather than for ever, or until CICS falls over, whichever is sooner)?

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 3:09 pm

Amit_Singh47, I think you need to start over again with your CICS training. CICS terminals must have unique identifiers, so you cannot have multiple terminals with the same terminal id in a region. Hence only one user at a time can be using a given terminal. Therefore, as stated your question makes no sense -- UNLESS you mean that a user signs onto a region, gets assigned terminal id WXYZ, keys in transactions, then signs off followed by another user signing onto the region and being assigned terminal id WXYZ and starts keying in transactions. In this case, the transactions could be the same, the terminal id would be the same, but the timestamps of the data in SMF would show what happened.

You need to clearly tell us what prompted the question -- are you looking at SMF data (in which case there could be multiple transactions from the same terminal id with different user ids, scattered throughout the recording period?

Amit_Singh47 · New User Joined: 15 May 2013 Posts: 22 Location: India

Hi Robert Sample.
You really gave a sample man!

yes i was looking at SMF data over a period of time
but i realized maybe even that wasnt possible

Jose Mateo · Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 7:46 pm

Good day to all!
A user could use a transaction simulator at his terminal for testing purpose. He could generate multiple transactions with the same trans ID and terminal ID but CICS would assign different task ID to each transaction.

Garry Carroll · Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 7:52 pm