This document discusses the use of Natural print and work files under CICS.
It covers the following topics:
Natural CICS Interface supports Natural print and work files in CICS either as CICS transient data queues or as CICS temporary storage queues, both auxiliary and main.
To customize usage, set the following subparameters in the PRINT
and WORK
profile parameter:
AM=CICS, TYPE=TD/AUX/MAIN, DEST=queuename
For more information, follow the links shown below:
WORK
profile
parameter description and how to set the above subparameter values, see the NTWORK
parameter macro.
PRINT
profile
parameter description and how to set the above subparameter values, see the NTPRINT
parameter macro.
Natural CICS Interface print file support has been provided for tracing and logging
purposes. It is not intended for dealing with reports. In particular, the keyword
parameters for DEFINE PRINTER
such as PRTY
, CLASS
, COPIES
, etc., are not honored
at all.
CICS temporary storage queues, both auxiliary and main, for CICS print and work files are RECFM=V files by design, available for input and output.
Although in Natural under CICS there is no exclusive control of a specific TS queue by a
Natural session, you can automatically create session- or terminal-dependent printfiles or
work files by specifying the string defined in the NTCICSP
macro parameter
TERMVAR
(&TID
is the default) in the subparameter DEST
of profile
parameter PRINT
or in
the subparameter DEST
of the profile parameter WORK
. When such a string is
found within the eight-character DEST
subparameter, it is replaced
by the actual terminal ID.
When running in a CICSplex environment, Natural print and work files in CICS temporary
storage must be defined as TYPE=SHARED
or TYPE=REMOTE
in a
CICS TST.
In Natural under CICS, NCI system queues cannot be accessed. (NCI system queues are TS
queues with a prefix defined in the TSKEY
parameter of macro
NCMDIR
.)
A CICS transient data queue for a Natural CICS print and work file must be defined in the
CICS DCT. For indirect destinations, the attributes of the base destinations are
propagated. In particular, the attributes of an extra-partition destination, such
as RECFM
or TYPEFLE
, determine the Natural work file
attributes.
Intra-partition destinations have RECFM=V
set by design and are
available for both input and output.
CICS transient data print and work files are "shared files" in the sense that more than one session may issue I/O operations against such a file.