Program control

The CICS® program control facility governs the flow of control between application programs in a CICS system.

Java and C++

The application programming interface described in this chapter is the EXEC CICS API, which is not used in Java™ programs. For information about Java programs using the JCICS classes to access program control services, see Java Applications in CICS in the CICS Information Center and the JCICS Javadoc html documentation. For information about C++ programs using the CICS C++ classes, see the CICS C++ OO Class Libraries manual.

The name of the application referred to in a program control command must have been defined as a program to CICS. You can use program control commands to:

You can use the RESP option to deal with abnormal terminations.

This chapter describes:

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