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In a conversational transaction, programs hold resources while waiting to receive
data. In a pseudo-conversational model, no resources are held during these
waits (Figure 11-6 on page 276).
More information can be found in the CICS Application Programming Guide.
11.4.5 CICS programming commands
The general format of a CICS command is EXECUTE CICS (or EXEC CICS),
followed by the name of the command and possibly one or more options.
You can write many application programs using the CICS command-level
interface without any knowledge of, or reference to, the fields in the CICS control
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