How to pass a value along with CICS transaction ID ??

[jijojohn2367]

I have a query in CICS,

Can someone please explain how to pass a value along with CICS transaction ID from terminal to a COBOL program when we are invoking the Tran id for the first time?

E.g : TRN1 123456578915

This TRN1 will invoke a program from PCT, inside that program I would like to receive the value '123456578915' and continue the process based on this value.

[Robert Sample]

Have you tried clearing the screen, typing TRN1 123456578915 and then having the CICS program TRN1 points to issue an EXEC CICS RECEIVE INTO (or SET) ?

[jijojohn2367]

Hi Robert

Sure I will try. In this case the EIBCALEN will be zero?

[Robert Sample]

Yes, it will be zero since this is the initial transaction invocation so you could not have passed a DFHCOMMAREA to the program. Note that RECEIVE does not involve any maps -- it reads the data from the screen and passes it to the program.

[Balr14]

Totally irrelevant reply removed.