Lizette: Of course my example used CICS but as you mentioned TSO will act exactly the same. BTW the APPLID can be called anything ((almost anyway). I have designed a few such systems and ts fun to watch the system evolve and subsequent systems peoe screw around with naming standards and it becomes a royal mess.
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