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CICS commarea retain/release

 
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Koleman
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:56 am    Post subject: CICS commarea retain/release Reply with quote
My question is basic and refer to pseudo conversational mode

Consider following three sequence
1) When a program return control to CICS
2) User hit enter on the screen
3) CICS gives the control back to program

In sequence 3, the program is able to get back the commarea memory.

My question is how CICS retains this memory between sequence 1 and 2 and how long does it retain? Is it until sequence 2 happens or user is disconnected?
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Manas Biswal
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Koleman,

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In sequence 3, the program is able to get back the commarea memory.


That is only the case when the program returns control alongwith the TRANSID and COMMAREA parameter coded.
CICS retains this information in its internal storage allocated for that terminal. (TIOA - Terminal Input-Output Area). The CICS terminal control program retains this information until sequence 2 or until the terminal is disconnected, whichever occurs first, and passes this information to the KCP (Task Control program) once sequence 2 is invoked. The KCP then invokes the transaction based on the information that it was passed on from the terminal control program.

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