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Don98

After signing onto a CICS region, the application users must enter a transaction id to get to the main menu for my application. Is it possible to automatically initiate a trans-id after the user has completed their sign-on?

Thanks

Bithead · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject:

Can your session manager run an ACL script?

Mike Chantrey · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:17 am Post subject:

The GMTRAN CICS system initialization parameter (described in the 'CICS system definition guide') indicates what transaction to run when the user logs on.
What we do is point this to our own signon transaction which prompts the user for id,pwsd etc., uses this to do an EXEC CICS SIGNON and then passes control to the initial application program (via EXEC CICS XCTL) or the inital application transaction (via EXEC CICS RETURN TRANSACTION('xxxx') IMMEDIATE).

Mike Chantrey · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:20 am Post subject:

Just to add that it really is a good idea to write your own signon+menu transfer program since you can do other things like tidy up TSQs, issue broadcast messages, whatever.