Common CECI CICS commands used while debugging

CECI Commands that can be used to test or debug any CICS program

There are many commands in CICS which can be very handy when any developer wants to do unit testing.

CECI READ FIL(XYZ) RID(&A)

 Give F5 and define &A give length for that temporary character

When you give above command it will not read file until it is open. It will give errors as below: 

Triggering CICS transaction through batch - PART3

Common Error Messages - Batch Processing

Please refer PART1 and PART2 blog before going through this blog.

There are some common error messages that may be thrown when the transaction is launched using from the batch job.

1) When the CICS region is not active

IEE341I                       CICSREN1 NOT ACTIVE

2) When the console is not defined in the CICS Region

DFHAC2015 date time CICSREN1 Console consname has not been defined to CICS.

3) When the transaction does not exist in the CICS region

DFHAC2001 date time CICSREN1 Transaction 'tranid' is not recognized.

4) When the transaction is disabled in the CICS region

DFHAC2008 date time CICSREN1 Transaction tranid has been disabled and cannot be used.

Triggering CICS transaction from batch - PART 2

Options commonly used in CICS to trigger transaction through Batch

Please refer Part 1 before going to this blog.

1: For some application user id and password is mandatory.This can be done by Identifying Transactions with Userid & Password

If the transaction requires sign-on, CESN transaction can be send as first command

Example:

// COMMAND 'F CICREN1,CESN USERID=xxx,PS=yyyy'

// COMMAND 'F CICREN1,TXN1'

Triggering CICS transaction from batch - PART1

Basics on Triggering transaction from batch

In CICS, we can trigger transaction from batch. Before triggering there is some settings which should be present for CICS to accept the commands from batch, there is console definition which should defined in the terminal table and these are provided in the IBM supplied resource group DFH$CNSL. Please check if that is set else contact admin group of CICS to have that set up.

MODIFY command is used to trigger the transaction from a batch job and it abbreviated to F.

Example: 

Following JCL executes the transaction TXN1 in the CICS region CICREN1

//CICSBTH1 JOB …

//STEP001 EXEC ...