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Dynamic allocation and deallocation of extrapartition queues: Extrapartition
transient data queues do not have to be predefined in your JCL. They can be
created dynamically.
3.7.3 Why implement transient data capabilities
There are a number of reasons to use transient data. Transient data is used in
many circumstances within CICS, including:
Servicing requests made by user tasks, for example, a request to build a
queue of data for later processing.
Servicing requests from CICS, primarily to write messages to system queues
for printing. Transient data must, therefore, be set up at your installation to
capture these CICS messages.
Initiating tasks based on queue trigger level specification and on records
written ...