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cases, the scope of a CICS transaction is also a single unit of work, but you
should be aware of the difference in meaning when reading non-CICS
publications.
Task
You will also see the word
task used extensively in CICS publications. This
word also has a specific meaning in CICS. When CICS receives a request to
run a transaction, it starts a new task that is associated with this one instance
of the execution of the transaction—that is, one execution of a transaction,
with a particular set of data, usually on behalf of a particular user at a
particular terminal. You can also consider it analogous to a
thread. When the
transaction completes, the task is terminated.
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