The IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS supports channels and containers for
EXEC CICS LINK
. In this respect CICS containers can be
considered as named COMMAREAs without the 32 KB limit.
Natural CICS Interface supports CICS containers in two ways:
Via a special SET
CONTROL
'P=CC'
, the CALL
statement parameter data is passed
in a container.
When the NTCICSP
macro parameter CNTCALL
is set to
ON
, a %P=C
CALL
automatically uses a CICS container rather than a CICS COMMAREA, when
the parameter data passed with the CALL
statement exceeds 32 KB.
In both cases, the default container name is NCI-COMMAREA
unless a container
name is defined explicitly via application programming interface USR4204N
prior
to the "real"
CALL
statement.