Setting up and running a CICS BAC batch request utility

You can invoke the CICS BAC batch request utility program as a job step in one of your regular batch jobs, where you need obtain access to resources that might be allocated and open in a CICS® region. For example, if you have a routine batch job that needs to open for update a data set that is typically open and online in a CICS region, you can include a job step that invokes the CICS BAC batch request utility, and through the utility pass a request to the CICS BAC request server to close the data set that is open as a CICS file. The following steps summarize what happens in this example: