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mdisulaiman · Beginner Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 17 Topics: 10

hai all,

what is new copy,how to create a new copy in cics.

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slade · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 6:26 pm Post subject:

Hi sulaiman,

The newcopy subparam is used to notify CICS that you have a new copy of the subject program and you want that copy loaded when the next load is performed. A newcopy is not required if the CICS region running your load mod was restarted AFTER you link edited the new version of the pgm.

CICS keeps a list of the PDS track/block addresses where each load module is loaded from. Newcopy updates this address if you relink your pgm first. If you don't perform a newcopy the old version of the pgm is loaded.

Regards, Jack.

kolusu · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 6:53 am Post subject:

mdisulaiman,

When CICS executes a program , it brings a copy of the load module from the load library into the Dynamic Storage Area in the CICS region. CICS then maintains an address pointer to that area of storage so it can find the program whenever it needs to be executed.
When you linkedit a new version of the program, the CEMT new copy command tells CICS to bring in a fresh copy of the new load module into the storage Area and to reset the address pointer.

You can set a newcopy using CEMT

mayuresh.tendulkar · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:09 am Post subject:

Hello mdisulaiman,

You can also do it this way:

Mike Chantrey · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 11:20 am Post subject:

Note that NEWC is not an IBM supplied transaction. It is the default name of the newcopy transaction associated with the Compuware XPEDITER/CICS product; or it may be used at some sites for other purposes such as home-written newcopy programs.

gans79 · Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 51 Topics: 27

Hi ,
i tried the above ex to issue a new copy, but it did not work
but this opton worked .

CECI SET PROGRAM(YOUR PGM NAME) NEWC
can someone tell what is the right procedure ..

thanks

German Castillo · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:

Hello gans79,

All of the above mentioned procedures should work, unless your shop has enabled security in either transaction, and... you do not happen to have that security level.

Anyway CEMT & CECI are two CICS transaction whith very different purposes, even if you can mimic some of the CEMT functions trough CECI.

Type in either function by themselves and you will be faced to choose among their several options, you will figure it out by yourself, very quickly CEMT allow you to Inquire, set or perform very uselfull functions, newcopy among them, just be carefull, since you can also shutdown your CICS region also. Incidentally you may force a newcopy in two ways with the CEMT transaction. The first one, is already exposed, by using Cemt set..... While the second one is executing cemt INQuire PROG(...), next you will have to tab into the proper place and write in 'New' as a keyword parameter.

The Ceci Transaction is used to invoke CICS command interpreter, which means that ANY command level function (That are usually done inside an application programs) can be issued, among them the SET command that you have alredy stated in your post, this indeed works, but you have just discovered one of the ways to do a new copy programatically Smile

. Just remember that anything you are able to do in your programs, can be done with the command interpreter Smile

. And if you do not have access to execute the CEMT transaction, you have just found a way around it!
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gans79 · Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 51 Topics: 27

hi german,
Thanx for ur response, ur explanation was amazing !!

gans79

gans79 · Beginner Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 51 Topics: 27

Hi,
I have made chnges to a map,
i do i take a new copy of the map in cics ??

thanks
ganesh

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:02 am Post subject:

By the way, for CICS with AUTOINSTALL, you don't have to issue NEWCOPY everytime you link-edit your program.

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German Castillo · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:16 am Post subject:

Hello gans79

CICS sees map as he sees programs.... just another ppt entry, therefore you can NC a map the same way you NC a program.

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject:

We have a NEWCOPY step at the end of all our compilation jobs. We use EXCI through REXX that calls a COBOL with CICS SPI.

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