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The IF statement, IF EIBCALEN=ZERO, is now NOT true, and the SEND MAP
and RETURN TRANSID is not executed. Instead, the program receives the input
(your name) from the screen, builds the output string, sends it out, and
terminates definitively.
9.14 The Execute interface block
In addition to the usual CICS control blocks, each task in a command-level
environment has a control block known as the
EXEC interface block (EIB)
associated with it.
An application program can access all of the fields in the EIB by name. The EIB
contains information that is useful during the execution of an application program,
such as the transaction identifier, the time and date (initially when the task is
started, and subsequen ...