CICS Interview Questions

timeout error

This is CICS command used to read temporary storage queues

You can make use of Tool Expeditor to get the SOC7 Abbend corrected. S0C7 error is caused due to data exception or bad record because of wrong data in the program. Find out the offset value in joblog. Mapping that offset value to the lines of codes where error occurred. Get it corrected.

We cant update the record in a file using file-aid if it is used by CICS region. Another way is to stop the file in the region and use file- Aid or just do it using CECI command

Resolving abends is different point & resolving an perticular type of abend is different point. 1) Resolving abends ans) this refers to how you resolve abends in general , that is what approach or ...

How to recreate this ASRA abend in CICS test regions.

Try this:
MOVE USERO TO WS-USER.
MOVE PWDO TO WS-PWD.
AND THEN USE THE SAME SQL QUERIES AS
SELECT USERNAME FROM EMP WHERE USERNAME LIKE '%S'
THEN validate as use the matching and move 'same value of user and pwd ' else move 'different values of user and pwd'

Code
move usero to ws-user.
move passo to ws-pass.
 
use sql query like
 
select  user , pass into ww-user , ww-pass
 from table_name
if sql code = 0
move 'userid n password matching' to messageo
else
move 'missmatch' to messageo.

Use this db2 code-

exec sql
select 1 from sysibm.sysdummy1 where (provided date) < current date
end-exec

compare the entered date (yyyy-mm-dd) with the system date.

User does not enter the any information on the screen .we will get mapfail condition

MAPFAIL occurs when no usable data is transmitted from Terminal or data transmitted is unformatted. MAPFAIL occurs on RECEIVE MAP. MAPFAIL Solve by HANDLE CONDITION.HANDLE CONDITION is used to transf...

You can set up a trigger as an entry to a CICS table which fires off the task at a certain time and date.

EXEC CICS START TRANSACTION(xxxx) AT.....

Note: You !WILL! shoot yourself in the foot if you don't understand application interval control. What you end up coding for HOURS will probably much different than you expect.

Yes, You use the set systemid command.

Nope. However in a sysplex, data sharing is used to get around this constraint.



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It will be moved to relative location 1 on the screen.

Relative cusror positining ( Through Program ) ::Code the relative position in the CURSOR keyword of the SEND MAP command e.g. CUSROR(44) will place the cursor at 44th position - row 1 column 1 is 0th...

Yes to have to move the appropriate value to unprotect it.

If some parameters are dynamically set and send  as protected from the program  then we can update it from the program and re-send it on the screen as protected .

There is no such thing as an online job, In CICS they are referred to as TASKS, batch processing runs JOBS

Batch Job Run through JCLTerminates once program is over Files are updated only when job is runUsed for extracts, reports and manipulation  Online JobRun in CICS regionTerminates only w...

CECI:-- cics execution command interpreter CEMT:-- cics execution master terminal(sing this we can copy the load module from batch to online & know program-id associated...

CICS ADMIN

BY using Transaction ID in between Exec Cics and End-Exec

EXEC CICS         ASSIGN APPLID (COMM-HOLD-REGION-ID)         RESP                 (W...

Cics Compiler(Translator) could not understand the StopRun commend as well as if we put the stop run in COBOL+cics program the control will directly pass to OS not to cics

STOP RUN ends the program and returns control to the operating system and discarding all information about the job.Since YOUR program is running as a subtask of CICS, "STOP RUN" would shut d...

They GET and FREE MAIN memory.These are rarely used as the system takes care of memory needs far more efficiently than you can code.NEVER use these without the advice of a senior CICS sysprog.  The re...

The concept of CICS GETMAIN is simply to provide the programmer the capacity of obtaining additional storage to augment storage acquired automatically by his program (e.g., WORKING-STORAGE in a COBOL ...