Re: Mainframe - Cobol - CICS Program Question

From: Joe Zitzelberger (joe_zitzelberger_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/17/04

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    In article <9i7g0097ts0rdua0t8c3anh1eb4f5dttfm@4ax.com>,
     SkippyPB <swiegand@neo.rr.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

    > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:16:12 +0000, Alistair Maclean
    > <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> enlightened us:
    >
    > >I may be missing the obvious but why don't you add a field to the
    > >COMMAREA to tell the program how it has been called/executed?
    > >
    >
    > It is a matter of how the data is retrieved. If the program is called
    > or linked to, there is indeed a COMMAREA passed to it. However, if MQ
    > invokes the program, the data stream must be RETRIEVED into an area.
    > That is why the program would need to know how it was invoked.
    >
    >
     E. C. Assign StartCode will tell you that -- the MQ invocation will be
    "SD" -- the link with commarea would be something I would need to check
    the manual for 'TD' or 'T '? Can't remember...


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