Re: Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions

2008-08-25 Thread Mohammad Khan
Chris All I meant by this phrase was that some user input would cause a program to be executed in the CICS / IMS region. It could be what you described in your post or something else though I can't comment due to my ignorance of these matters. Rest of my post was the specific bit that I could c

Accessing IMS-L (tangent from "Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions")

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Mason
Mark Thanks. I am now able to access the archives of IMS-L. I seemed to be being taken down the same road as before but this time I got told my suggested password was too short. After that all was sweetness and light! Chris Mason On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:44:53 -0500, Mark Hammond <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Hammond
Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions Jim I tried to get onto the IMS-L list and failed miserably so I hope I am not wasting my time telling you what you have already been told - always a

Re: Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Mason
Jim I tried to get onto the IMS-L list and failed miserably so I hope I am not wasting my time telling you what you have already been told - always a risk when cross-posting. Fortunately I was able to check responses in the CICS-L list since I already subscribe to it. I am looking at this pur

Re: Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions

2008-08-20 Thread Mohammad Khan
You will have to figure out how to trap the user interrupt request. Once you have that your program can issue the DB2 command "Cancel Thread" using instrumentation facility interface. The thread will be cancelled, unit of work will rollback ( which CAN take a long time ) and control will return

Re: Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions

2008-08-20 Thread Pete Borton
e- From: Jim McAlpine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 August 2008 16:57 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions Cross posted to the CICS and IMS lists. We have an application that runs in both CICS/DB2 and IMS/DB2. For database queries we currently set searc

Interrupting CICS and IMS transactions

2008-08-20 Thread Jim McAlpine
Cross posted to the CICS and IMS lists. We have an application that runs in both CICS/DB2 and IMS/DB2. For database queries we currently set search limits to end the query transaction. We are toying with the idea of allowing end users to be able to dynamically run queries on any database column