CICS_EPI_EVENT_CONVERSE

The CICS_EPI_EVENT_CONVERSE event indicates that a transaction is expecting a reply as a result of either an EXEC CICS RECEIVE command, or an EXEC CICS CONVERSE command.

The application issues a CICS_EpiReply call to return the data to CICS®, as follows:
  • If the transaction has issued an EXEC CICS RECEIVE command without specifying the BUFFER option, the buffer might contain data sent from the transaction, or it might be empty. If there is data to process, deal with it before replying. Send the reply when the data to be sent is available.
  • If the transaction has issued an EXEC CICS RECEIVE BUFFER command, the data buffer contains the 3270 Read Buffer command and the Size field is set to 1. The reply is be sent immediately.

Fields completed

Event
The CICS_EPI_EVENT_CONVERSE event code.
Data
A pointer to the buffer that is updated to contain the data sent by the transaction, as defined above.
Size
The length of the data in the buffer. This can be set to zero to indicate that no data was sent, but a reply is still expected.

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