March 2007
Beginner
526 pages
13h 53m
English
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Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/VSE Basics
by Wolfgang Bosch, Hans Joachim Ebert, Helmut Hellner, G. M. (Jerry) Johnston, Wilhelm Mild, Ingolf Salm, Joerg Schmidbauer, Martin Walbruehl, Mike Ebbers
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Chapter 11. Transaction management systems on z/VSE 275
11.4.4 Conversational and pseudo-conversational programming
In CICS, when the programs being executed enter into a conversation with the
user, it is called a
conversational transaction (also see Figure 11-5). A
non-conversational transaction (see Figure 11-6 on page 276), by contrast,
processes one input, responds, and ends (disappears). It never pauses to read a
second input from the terminal, so there is no real conversation.
Figure 11-5 Example of a conversational transaction
Conversational
transaction
A program
conducts a
conversation
with a user.
Conversational:
User
types
input
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