How to use CALL in CICS Program

jay86 · New User Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 14

I WANT TO USE 'CALL' IN CICS.

I CODE IT JUST LIKE IN COBOL BATCH,BUT IT DIDN'T WORK,DATA CAN'T TRANSMIT TO SUBPROGRAM.

CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME EXAMPLES?
I NEED YOUR HELP,THANS

rajakumar10 · New User Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 12

CALL statement can't be used in CICS. You have to use XCTL or LINK depending upon your requirement.

kumar_ngl · New User Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 50 Location: chennai

here is a sample for u question

EXEC CICS XCTL

PROGRAM ('PROGRAMNAME')
COMAREA(WS-COMAREA)
LENGTH (WS-LENGTH)

END-EXEC.

LINK and XCTL are like CALL and CHAIN

kumar.p.v

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:40 pm

jay86 -

You can use CALL in your CICS programs.

See the chapter "Calling Subprograms from COBOL" in the fine manual.

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vinodmaanju · New User Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Pune

you can't code call in cics- COBOL program. If u want to call a program then you have to use XCTL or LINK command depending on your requirement.

XCTL ---- transfer control permanently to called program
LINK ----- does not transfer control permanent and expect back to calling program

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:50 am

vinodmaanju -

Have you read the fine IBM's manual before answering that ?

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raju_rangam · New User Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 25 Location: bangalore

there is no statement like CALL In CICS,
use Link,Xtcl for Data passing, link will use when we wnat control back, xctl wil use we no need of to get control back.

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:28 pm

Again, there is a CALL statement in COBOL, and it can be used in any COBOL program (CICS or batch). It is not a CICS API command, it is a COBOL statement.

Please read the manual !!!!

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Brian's_song · New User Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

I Agree with Ofer71! a Call can be used in CICS, but only at the following conditions: You can use call only when calling the VS COBOL II or the other assemble PGMs if it is in the same Load LIB, or else LINK OR Xtcl will be used.

umeshkmrsh · New User Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 79 Location: India

I agree with ofer71. I have been coding CICS COBOL programs which use all the three CALL, XCTL and LINK.

CALL is COBOL statement.
Where as XCTL and LINK are CICS statements and need to be coded within EXEC CICS block.

filler · New User Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 5

U can use a CALL in CICS COBOL programs. The program being called must be defined in the PPT just like an online program.