Customer Information Control System Interview Questions and Answers

26 :: What is the purpose of the Program List Table?

The Program List Table records the set of application programs that will be executed automatically at CICS start-up time

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27 :: What is the function of the CICS translator?

The CICS translator convert the EXEC CICS commands into call statements for a specific programming language. There are CICS translator for Assembler, COBOL, and PL/1.

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28 :: What does Pseudo Conversational mean?

The programming technique in which the task will not wait for the end-user replies on the terminal. Terminating the task every time the application needs a response from the user and specifying the next transaction to be started when the end user press any attention key ( (Enter, PF1 trough PF24, PF24, PA1, PA2 and clear) is pseudo-conversational processing.

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29 :: Code the related portions of CICS/COBOL-I programs to gain addressability to TWA area assigned to a particular task. Assme that the size of TWA area is 300 bytes. What are the advantages if COBOL-II is used in the place of COBOL?

Code the above requirement in COBOL-II.

AN: LINKAGE SECTION.
01 PARMLIST.
02 FILLER PIC S9(8) COMP.
02 TWA-PTR S(98) COMP.

01 TWA-DATA-LAYOUT.
02 DATA-AREA PIC x(300)

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
......
EXEC CICS ADDRESS
TWA(TWA-PTR)
END-EXEC
SERVISE RELOAD TWA-DATA-LAYOUT.

COBOL-II PROGRAM

LINKAGE SECTION
01 TWA-DATA-LAYOUT.
05 DATA-AREA PIC X(300).

PROCEDURE ADDRESS
......
EXEC CICS ADDRESS
TWA(ADDRESS OF TWA-DATA-LAYOUT)
END EXEC
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30 :: How and where is the TWA size set?

TWASIZE=300 in PCT table.

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