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  • 1.  CICs transactions in a container

    Posted Thu May 09, 2024 09:40 AM

    Hi all
    I wanted to try to mock a CIC's transaction that can be called from an IIB CICSRequest node:
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/integration-bus/9.0.0?topic=nodes-cicsrequest-node

    I found this CICS 3270 docker instance
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-tx/11.1?topic=advanced-deploying-cics-tx-docker-podman

    But I was trying to find something that would allow me to work with a COMMAREA .
    Does anyone know if there is a test docker container that we could make CICS requests against,
    or if there is away to use the running 3270 docker container with the CICSRequest node.

    Regards
    Richard



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    Richard Huegill
    Canberra
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  • 2.  RE: CICs transactions in a container

    Posted Mon May 13, 2024 08:08 AM

    The COMMAREA would be sent/received when you invoke a CICS transaction.  You would need to write a program for CICS to call that is receiving data or sending data back to your application.  I am not sure if anyone has a simulated CICS response with the COMMAREA, but it is a basically a map of what is sent and returned.

    Brian



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    Brian S Paskin
    Sr. Technology Engineer
    IBM Cloud Engineering
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  • 3.  RE: CICs transactions in a container

    Posted Mon May 13, 2024 09:02 AM

    Thanks for your response Brian.

    My issue is I don't have an environment to accept a CICS transaction request and run a program that generates a result.

    I'm starting to look at Hercules-390:

    http://www.hercules-390.org/hercinst.html#config

    and tk5

    https://www.prince-webdesign.nl/tk5

    as emulation environments but i'm trying to see if there is a better way.

    Regards

    Richard





    On 13/05/2024 10:10 pm, Brian S Paskin via IBM TechXchange Community wrote:
    0100018f71dc5ab1-1e5eb098-fca3-4f13-b533-b8ba62fa95c1-000000@email.amazonses.com">
    The COMMAREA would be sent/received when you invoke a CICS transaction. You would need to write a program for CICS to call that is receiving data... -posted to the "App Connect" group



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