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the 32 KB limit together with the static structure imposed on the traditional CICS
COMMAREA is insufficient for such applications.
While the COMMAREA remains the basic way to pass data between CICS
application programs with the recognized qualities mentioned earlier, a new way
to exchange data is required alongside the COMMAREA solution. This provides
an alternative way to satisfy the requirements introduced by the use of new
application programming styles.
For customers and companies that have used CICS and COMMAREA s since its
early inception, this can prove to be problematic as they attempt to keep up with
ever-changing technologies. CICS Transaction Server Version 3.1 introduces a
new approach that ...