Below are the list of EXEC CICS commands categorized according to the function they perform -
Abend support
| Command | Description |
|---|
| ABEND | Terminates a task abnormally. |
| HANDLE ABEND | Handles an abnormal termination exit. |
BMS
| Command | Description |
|---|
| RECEIVE MAP | Used to receive the screen input entered by the user into application program data area. |
| SEND CONTROL | Used to send the control to the terminal without map or text data. |
| SEND MAP | Used to send the output data to a terminal. |
| SEND TEXT | Used to send data to the terminal without any predefined BMS maps. |
Exception support
| Command | Description |
|---|
| HANDLE CONDITION | Used to specify the control passing label or paragraph if a condition occurs. |
| IGNORE CONDITION | Used to specify that no action is taken if a condition occurs. |
| POP HANDLE | Used to restore the current effect of the HANDLE CONDITION, IGNORE CONDITION, HANDLE ABEND and HANDLE AID commands to the before state a PUSH HANDLE command was executed at the current link level. |
| PUSH HANDLE | Used to suspend the current effect of the HANDLE CONDITION, IGNORE CONDITION, HANDLE ABEND and HANDLE AID commands. |
File control services
| Command | Description |
|---|
| DELETE | Deletes a record from a file on a KSDS or a path over a KSDS or an RRDS. |
| ENDBR | Ends a browsing of a file on a local or a remote CICS region. |
| READ | Reads a record from a file on a local or a remote system. |
| READNEXT | Used repeatedly to read records in sequential order from a file on a local or a remote system. |
| READPREV | Used repeatedly to read records in reverse sequential order from a VSAM file on a local or a remote system. |
| RESETBR | Specifies the browse to be repositioned when browsing a file on a local or a remote system. |
| REWRITE | Updates a record in a file on a local or a remote system. |
| STARTBR | Specifies where the record browsing to start in a file on a local or a remote system. |
| UNLOCK | Releases the exclusive control established by read command with the UPDATE option. |
| WRITE | Writes a new record to a file. |
Interval control services
| Command | Description |
|---|
| ASKTIME | Gets the current date and time of day. |
| CANCEL | Cancel interval control requests. |
| DELAY | Delay the task processing. |
| FORMATTIME | Converts absolute date and time into a specified format. |
Program control
| Command | Description |
|---|
| LINK | Used to call the other programs expecting return in CICS environment. |
| LOAD | Used to load application program from disk memory to main memory. |
| RELEASE | Releases a loaded program, table, or mapset previously loaded by a LOAD command from the main memory. |
| RETURN | Returns the program control back. |
| XCTL | Used to call the other programs in CICS environment but it won’t expect the control back to the calling program. |
| CALL | Used an alternative to LINK/XCTL commands. |
Storage control
| Command | Description |
|---|
| FREEMAIN | Releases main storage that was acquired by using a GETMAIN request. |
| GETMAIN | Gets a main storage area of the size indicated by the FLENGTH option. |
Sync point
Temporary storage control
| Command | Description |
|---|
| DELETEQ TS | Deletes all the data associated with a temporary storage queue. |
| READQ TS | Retrieves data from a temporary storage queue that is stored in either main or auxiliary storage. |
| WRITEQ TS | Writes data records in a temporary storage queue that stores in main or auxiliary storage. |
Transient data
| Command | Description |
|---|
| DELETEQ TD | Deletes all the data associated with a particular intra-partition destination transient. |
| READQ TD | Reads data from a transient data queue. |
| WRITEQ TD | Writes data to a predefined symbolic destination queue. |
