Online Transaction be Kicked off by a batch job

ramisettyseenu · New User Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Bangalore

1.Can an on-line transaction for a specific region be kicked off by a batch job , If so can you let me know how??
2.How is the region specified? If you can find some example JCL that would be great.
3.Does the batch job continue to run as long as the transaction is running? If so, can we have steps in the batch job after the transaction finished that can be performed? Such as if the transaction is kicked off in STEP020 and the job has STEP030, STEP040 and STEP050, will those steps be performed after the transaction has completed (the batch job remains on STEP020 while the transaction is running) or will they be perform right after the transaction in STEP020 is kicked off?
4.Can output from the transaction be written to an output of the batch job? Such as if there are errors occurring on applications the transaction is processing can we write those errors to an output specified in the job? We would like a user to be able to monitor the output containing the errors so they can cancel they batch job if necessary.

Can you let me know any info regarding the above questions.

Ayyappan · New User Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 31 Location: India

Hi,

I think, we can enable a transaction in a particular region from a JCL using the following commands,

CICS CICSPR01
CEMT SET TRAN(HR04) ENA

Where CICSPR01 is the region and HR04 is the transaction. But i think, we cannot get the error messages using our batch job.

Please correct me if i am wrong.