CEDF suppress displays
How can I suppress CICS commands in CEDF until I get to the program I want to debug? Our CICS programs are linked through several layers before getting to the program that I am interested in. There are hundreds of CICS commands before my program and sometimes CEDF fills up and cannot process anymore before [...]

Answer Question   |  April 4, 2013  2:52 PM
CEDF, CICS, CICS programs

Switch between two screens using CICS maps
how we can switch between two screens using maps in cics what will be the logic implemented in cobol programme?

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  2:16 AM
AS/400 DB2, CICS, CICS programs, COBOL

Inquire storage usage
how to program cics inquire storage command in cobol to get the storage alloted to a particular task and then free the alloted storage

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  6:08 PM
CICS, CICS Storage, COBOL, COBOL CICS

Alternatives to the CEMT commands in CICS
If you do not have access to CEMT in CICS and want to know the size of an online program how can one go about this without using CEMT? Are there any other similar commands?

Answer Question   |  May 10, 2011  7:52 PM
CEMT, CICS, CICS programs, MVS

CICS load lib
[strong]Can I find the loadlib a program is loaded from in CICS 4.1?”.[/strong]

Answer Question   |  May 5, 2011  7:07 PM
CICS, CICS programs, CICS Storage

Acquired cicsts 3.2 number of terminals
how can i know the avaliable number of aquired terminals in our tocics system?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  5:05 PM
CICS, CICS programs, CICSTS, SOA

Pass Ticket with CA-ACF2
From Cobol in CICS TS 4.1, can you use the VERIFY command to validate a temporary Pass Ticket instead of a permanent ACF2 password? If not, how do you validate a  temporary Pass Ticket?

Answer Question   |  October 22, 2010  6:14 PM
CICS, CICSTS, COBOL, PassTicket

CICS Transactions
I have a Critical CICS transaction that runs many times in a day. The transaction accesses many programs during the day. I would like to drill down the names of the programs that are accessed by the transaction. Is there any way i can get the names of the programs? We use Mainview for monitoring [...]

Answer Question   |  August 4, 2010  10:00 AM
CICS, CICS programs, CICS Subprograms, CICS Transactions, Mainframe

extrapartition TDQ in batch mode
Can anyone please let me know ( along with some code/JCL snippets) how to load a sequential file in a extrapartition TDQ.

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2010  10:22 AM
CICS, JCL, Mainframe, TDQ

Pinging an IP address in certain sign-on programs while using CICS
We are using the CICS Web Interface. In our sign-on program, DFH$WBSN, we would like to check the IP address. Is it possible to obtain an IP address of a CICS Web Interface client session via this sign-on program?

Answer Question   |  April 28, 2010  7:51 PM
CICS, Open source Web services, Ping Requests

J2EE or FE for application communication on a mainframe?
We have a new application design with mainframes as a back-end, and J2EE (Struts) and FE.  For communication from FE to BE, MQ or CTG, which one would be better?  Can you explain the pros and cons of both of the approaches?

Answer Question   |  April 8, 2010  5:55 PM
CICS, Data Center, FE, J2EE, Mainframe

What is error DFHAC2206 with an abend of XPFC mean? (CICS)
What is error DFHAC2206 with an abend of XPFC mean? (CICS)

Answer Question   |  February 26, 2010  8:08 PM
CICS, CICS Errors

CICS program with TSQ — transaction troubleshooting
CICS program with TSQ is attached to the two different Trans-ID. The program should be start in the two different CICS(mainframe)regions. Using the start command during the CAFCA execution both transaction ends with the AICA return code.Could you please advise what possibly could cause the problem? Originally, the program never gave any problems. The problem [...]

Answer Question   |  February 24, 2010  7:31 PM
CICS

Can I access CICS from batch JCL jobs?
Can I access CICS from batch JCL jobs?

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2010  7:24 PM
CICS, JCL

How expensive are GETMAINs to a transaction in CICS?
How expensive are GETMAINs to a transaction in CICS? Some of our transactions can use over 10,000 of them. Would reducing the number have significant performance results?

Answer Question   |  February 25, 2010  7:23 PM
CICS, Data Center management, Data Center Storage

GET OPID SEGMENT CICS FROM A COBOL/DB2/CICS PROGRAM (RACF)
Please I need Get the OPID segment CICS  of RACF from a COBOL/CICS  Program.   Thanks JORGE

Answer Question   |  September 9, 2009  12:27 PM
CICS, COBOL, DB2, OS/390, RACF

CICS commands
Hi, I am using PCOM for accessing Z OS. I am new to Mainframes. I want to fire this command. CEDA DEF PROG(PROG1) GROUP(GRP1) LANG(COBOL). When i googled I found that i have to fire this command at CICS terminal. I want to know how can I get to the CICS terminal.

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2010  8:37 AM
CICS, CICS programs, Mainframe, PCOMM, z/OS

Synchronous File mirroring across two different sysplexes
I am currently redesigning a process that uses started transactions to update a file that is local to our AOR on two different sysplexes. We run into issues where if the remote file update fails we have no way of knowing (NOCHECK) on the started tran so the files get out of synch. I would [...]

Answer Question   |  April 17, 2009  7:01 PM
CICS, Synchronous replication, Sysplex, VSAM

COBOL: “service reload”
I have a really old cobol program generated under VS cobol. Under 3.2 VS cobol no longer works. I regenerated the program to view the problems and a line ‘Service Reload’ came up as invalid. What does Service Reload do? Is there an ‘easy’ replacement?

Answer Question   |  April 20, 2009  2:39 PM
CICS, CICS 3.x, COBOL, COBOL CICS

CICS transaction commands
how to check availability of a cics transaction

Answer Question   |  May 16, 2011  12:15 PM
CICS, CICS Transactions