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Figure 3-3 CICS as a service requester
When CICS is in the role of service requester, it must perform the following
operations:
1. Build a request using data provided by the application program.
2. Send the request to the service provider.
3. Receive a response from the service provider.
4. Examine the response, and extract the contents that are relevant to the
original application program.
5. Return control to the application program.
3.4 Processing the outbound service request
Figure 3-4 on page 44 shows the processing that occurs when a service
requester running in a CICS TS V3.1 region ...