Micro Focus Mainframe Express™

CICS Option Technical Guide

MERANT®

Issue 2
June 1999

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Preface

The CICS Option component of Mainframe Express provides an environment for the development of CICS application programs within the integrated development environment of Mainframe Express.

Audience

This technical guide is for COBOL programmers developing CICS applications who need information about the advanced features of the CICS Option component of Mainframe Express. The basic features and functions of CICS Option are described in the User's Guide, the Administrator's Guide, and the online help that is part of Mainframe Express.

How to Use this Guide

This guide is not meant to be read consecutively from start to finish. Its purpose is to provide technical information about functions and features of CICS Option and you should therefore need only to read the chapters on the features you need information about.

Notation

The following type styles and conventions have been used in this Technical Guide:

• Text that you type is shown like this:

  cat script_name | more

  The italic text denotes a variable that you type as part of the command.

• Text in command lines or code examples that is optional is shown in square brackets. In the following example, the expression can specify that the column_name is like the pattern_value, or is not like the pattern_value, depending on the absence or presence of the optional word NOT:

  column_name [NOT] LIKE pattern_value

• A section or paragraph that applies only to a particular model or operating system is identified by a bold italic heading immediately preceding the paragraph or section. For example:

  Windows 95
  This paragraph only applies on Windows 95 systems.