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Can you have 2 CICS commands in 1 EXEC CICS block?

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jagbrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:33 am Post subject: Can you have 2 CICS commands in 1 EXEC CICS block?

Any clue on the documentation for this?

Mike Chantrey
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Joined: 10 Sep 2003
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:47 am Post subject:

If you mean something like

Code:

EXEC CICS
READ FILE('X') INTO(Y) RIDFLD(Z)
WRITE FILE('X') FROM(Y) RIDFLD(Z)
END-EXEC.

Then you definitely can't do it. EXEC CICS ... END-EXEC. defines exactly one CICS command. Multiple commands would cause a translator failure as CICS interpreted them as incorrect parameters of the first command.

Given that this can't done, there will not be any documentation on it.

Questions:
Why did you think this could be done?
Why would you want to do it - what problem are you trying to solve?

(This is not the same thing, but at runtime you CAN have CICS commands 'embedded' in CICS commands - in a task-related user exit or global user exit - but the commands are actually coded in different programs. But this is a low level system programmer/3rd party software technique).

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