Interval Control CICS Interval control provides a variety of time related functions. They are ASKTIME, FORMATTIME, START, RETRIEVE, DEL...

The WAIT EXTERNAL command Use this command when you want to wait on events that post MVS-format ECBs. If a WAIT EXTERNAL ECB is hand posted,...

The WAIT EVENT command EXEC CICS WAIT EVENT ECADDR(pointer-ref) END-EXEC Options ECADDR The pointer returned by the POST command in...

Suspend a task (SUSPEND command) to enable tasks of higher priority to proceed. This can prevent processor-intensive tasks from monopol...

A Model CICS Application   Preparatory work Create the following PDS userid.COBOL.SOURCE recsize=80,blksize=800,recfm=fb,PDS userid.COBOL....

Task Control Introduction and Overview The CICS task control facility provides functions that synchronize task activity, or that c...