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EXEC CICS LINK, find calling program

 
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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 4:15 am    Post subject: EXEC CICS LINK, find calling program Reply with quote

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I have one (COBOL / PL1) program A under control of CICS, this program calls one other program B (COBOL / PL1) by EXEC CICS LINK.

Question: How can Program B, the called program, find out, what program is the calling program?

Is there any EXEC CICS query ...... or something like this available ?

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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2016 10:41 am    Post subject: Re: EXEC CICS LINK, find calling program Reply with quote

bauer wrote:
Question: How can Program B, the called program, find out, what program is the calling program?

Is there any EXEC CICS query ...... or something like this available ?

Kind regards,
bauer


Not really unless you have the caller pass an indicator via commarea/linkage section you wouldn't know who the caller is.
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for your answer.

Yes, I agree, if any indicator in commarea, container is available, this would help ......, but this is not available.
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So make it available, if you need to know Smile

Talk to your CICS sysprog(s). If unavoidable in any more reasonable way, they may be able to come up with something (going back up the call-chain, looking at CICS control blocks, something like that). Simplest will be just to give a value.

Of course, your system was written years ago, and it is only now that you "need to know"...
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

William Collins wrote:

Talk to your CICS sysprog(s). If unavoidable in any more reasonable way, they may be able to come up with something (going back up the call-chain, looking at CICS control blocks, something like that). Simplest will be just to give a value.


William,

Pardon my rustic knowledge of CICS, but how would sysprog know if the caller is using the simple COBOL CALL or CICS LINK ? as CALLS are invisible to CICS. You won't be able to see them in CEDF too.

Would the sysprog still be able to look at call chain even when the call is Dynamic?
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kolusu,

Well, I was reading the question as all from LINK, no actual CALL (a little confusion of terms in the question, so can't be certain).

Is the code generated these days for LINK the same as for CALL, and for CICS RETURN the same as GOBACK? I don't know Smile

Yes, going back through the calling chain will work (for a CALL) whether dynamic or static. LINK is with the intention of returning from whence it came, so I'd expect that to work as well. Would there be any difference in the code? See the previous paragraph.

I think to want to use something exotic the need would have to be dire. I'd strongly hunt for a COBOL- and/or PL/I-only solution first. Relying on the name of an actual program, rather than a "logical" business-process name, is... dodgy. Retrofitting something? Possiblemaybeperhaps.
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

William Collins wrote:
Kolusu,

Is the code generated these days for LINK the same as for CALL, and for CICS RETURN the same as GOBACK? I don't know Smile


William,

I think the code generation is a bit different in case of LINK as CICS can send control over to another CICS region where as the processing of CALL will always remain in the same region. With WLM in picture it might be routed to the least busy region.

William Collins wrote:

Yes, going back through the calling chain will work (for a CALL) whether dynamic or static.


The issue I see with looking at the call chain is that sometimes TSO would emulate the call under the covers as if it is doing a TSO function (especially when working with REXX and ISPF services). So you need to be really careful about who is the real caller.
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