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CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:36 pm
by Srikanth.A.P
Can anybody tell me the full forms or the significance of the command names of CICS transaction commands CSSN, CESN, CSSF, CESF and others.

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:24 pm
by CICS Guy
The current transactions are explained in the CICS Supplied Transactions manual.
The old ones (CSSN & CSSF) will not.....

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:42 pm
by rawatdewan
CESN is used for signing in and CESFfor signing out

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:25 pm
by Srikanth.A.P
Thank you for the replies.I wanted to know about the Expansion of these commands rather than the technical significance.

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:21 pm
by CICS Guy
Srikanth.A.P wrote:I wanted to know about the Expansion of these commands.....
Expansion? Please expand on this....

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:35 pm
by Srikanth.A.P
Hi,
Let me rephrase my question. My question is not the technical significance of CESN. CESN is for Signon.
My question is why the signon command is named as CESN.
for example in COBOL "Move" statement is present, from the word "Move" we clearly understand that it used to move some values.
Similarly is CESN an abbreviation for something or has some significance for its keyword.

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:52 pm
by CICS Guy
Srikanth.A.P wrote:My question is not the technical significance of CESN. CESN is for Signon.
My question is why the signon command is named as CESN.
All (IIRC) CICS provided transactions begin with the letter 'C'.
The previous signon transaction was (IIRC) CSSN.
When IBM changed it, they had to pick a different tranid.
CSMT went to CEMT, so CSSN went to CESN.
is CESN an abbreviation for something or has some significance for its keyword.
My guess is 'C' for a CICS provided transaction, 'E' for extra/expanded/(whatever), and 'SN for 'Sign oN'.....
The same goes for 'Sign ofF'.....

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:30 pm
by dick scherrer
Hello,

My question is why the signon command is named as CESN
Many tran-id's "mean something" - many do not. Several are a kind of acronym (like CESN). Some are just the "next" value - with only 4 positions, there is not a lot of room for creativity.

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:52 pm
by Srikanth.A.P
Thank you for the replies :)

Re: CICS transaction commands-NON technical Q

PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:34 pm
by dick scherrer
You're welcome :)

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