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bufbooth · Beginner Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 8 Topics: 4

Hello, Does anyone know the pros/cons of running a program as a Background CICS task vs runnning the same program via JCL Batch?

Thanks,

Dennis...

kolusu · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:40 am Post subject:

bufbooth,

It depends on what the pgm is doing. At any rate I would opt for a batch program as you don't have to deal with any system tables of cics

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bufbooth · Beginner Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 8 Topics: 4

I agree about avoiding the table setups. However, the situation that I am in is that I just inherited a system that totally avoided running programs in JCL Batch, so all of the table setups have been done. All programs are ran in Background CICS (JCL is used to start the CICS program (CEMT and SYSIPT). I am trying to figure out if there are any benefits (runtime improvements) to moving all Background CICS programs to MVS JCL Batch. My company treats CICS mips and MVS JCL mips as having the same dollar cost, and there is no prime time cost differences, so it will come down mostly to mips reduction. So, I was hoping for a list of reasons why one would choose to run in Background CICS over MVS JCL Batch and visa versa. Thanks, Dennis...

bufbooth · Beginner Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 8 Topics: 4

Thanks,

Dennis...

chaparala · Beginner Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 1 Topics: 0

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