Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

I used to believe that a CICS program will always have an associated transaction name but at this new company I have been told there are some CICS programs which are never invoked directly on terminal and don't require a transaction name. These programs are called by the other application (not on mainframes) and provide them back with a response.

Now, in such a situation how would I know that which CICS program is a called by some third party application and which one is not?

Extract the CSD into a data set. Check that data set for transactions with the program name. If you find no transactions associated with the program, then it is not invoked from a terminal.

Thanks Robert.

I tried using this command and this gives result - but I can not copy that information automatically to a notepad for future reference.

Is there a way I can run CEMT in batch?

There probably is a way to run CEMT in batch, but why bother? Extracting the CSD uses JCL that is available in the manual, provides what you want at a small cost of having to scan the output, and does not require experimenting to get CEMT running in batch.