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[vihv]

Hi there, what's the cics command to check if a transaction is already running.....(writing a cobol program)

thans

[CICS Guy]

CEMT I TAS?
What are you trying to determine?

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

You are attempting in a COBOL CICS program to determine if an instance of the same module is already running in another task. e.g. you have a TD QUEUE with a trigger level and want to insure no more than one task is draining the QUE?

I will try to find the eib field that you need. I seem to remember (1987) that it required an additional command.

might take me a day or so; hopefully someone that knows will answer..
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[CICS Guy]

SPI for use count on the program?

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

that's what we used to do. thx CICS_Guy.

vihv,

if that does not answer your question, please provide a little more detail.
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[vihv]

Guys, I'm sorry I did not state right the question.
On a cobol program I need to check if a transactions(different to the transaction on my program) is already running, if not, I need to start it.

I think I found the answer:
EXEC CICS INQUIRE
TRANSACTION (WS-E8BD-TRAN-ID)
REMOTESYSTEM (WS-REMOTE-SYSID)
RESP (WS-RESP)
END-EXEC.

THNKS 2 U ALL

[CICS Guy]

Yes, that would do it.....

[wiltonp]

Wont that just tell you that its defined - not that its actually running? I think
what you need is INQUIRE TASK.

[vihv]

well I saw an example where we use the inquire tran for determining if the transaction is running. since the task id is randomly generated by cics every time the tran is started, how do you pass it as a param to the inquire command?

take a look a this:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v2r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.cics.ts23.doc/eyua6/eyua6a0017.htm

but I can be wrong. anyway if you find something different let me know...