Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

oh...ok. Thanks for your help Robert.

CICS handles files as a resource available to every program, not just the one program. As such CICS handles file opens and closes -- you can specify to open the file when CICS comes up or on first reference. You don't put file definition and open / close logic in a CICS program first because CICS i...

I faced this interview questions. Please share your thoughts/answer on this: Why don't CICS provides file open and close like in COBOL? I answered that at the time when CICS region goes up, it will open all the files. We can change that using CEMT I FILEName. But I think I was not able to give a goo...