TCAM-supported terminals and logical units

Start of changeCICS® TS 3.1 does not support local TCAM terminals. However, it does support transaction routing or function shipping from TCAM terminals attached to a remote, pre-CICS TS 3.1, terminal-owning region, to which the terminals are connected by the DCB (not ACB) interface of TCAM.End of change

Because TCAM permits many applications to share a single network, the CICS-TCAM interface supports data streams rather than specific terminals or logical units.

Operations for terminals supported by TCAM use the same options as the terminals supported by other access methods. With the exception of the BUFFER option for the 3270, all options applicable for input operations are supported by CICS-TCAM. However, the conditions ENDINPT and EOF do not occur.

All output requests are the same for TCAM as for other CICS-supported terminals, except that:

With the exception of 3650 logical units, operations for logical units supported by TCAM use the same options as logical units supported by VTAM®.