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CICS and OS

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:14 pm
by halfrida
What is the difference between CICS and normal OS?
CICS does most of de works of OS..lik memory mgmt,task mgmnt,etc... but thr s one activity that CICS does not do wrt normal OS.. what s tat activity???

Re: CICS and OS

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:54 pm
by Robert Sample
CICS does not support batch processing, tape processing, partitioned data set processing, and many other things that operating systems handle. If you are looking for one particular answer, go back to the person who posed the question and ask them what they are thinking of since there are many differences.

Re: CICS and OS

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:08 pm
by enrico-sorichetti
just to start with ...

You can have zOS without CICS
You cannot have CICS without zOS

as a general point, CICS is seen by the zOS as a user program
( sophisticated and all, but still a user program )

Re: CICS and OS

PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:35 pm
by halfrida
thanks a lot.. :) batch processing was de specific activity i was lookin for..

Re: CICS and OS

PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:06 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
Also, You define CICS as an MVS subsystem before you can use any of facilities...