I appreciated all of the good and prompt responses. It was really appreciated. I did try 'task' just now with the same result. But this may just be the way our logic is coded.
Now we are trying the approach of a shared resource ENQ/DEQ. We will test two transactions calling a transaction that ENQ's a resource. This SHOULD cause the one transaction to wait until the other is DEQ'd. I'm not too CICS savvy, but how do you define a small field that is shared between transactions (does anyone have an example), and do you refer to that field in the ENQ by name and length (again, an example would be most helpful)? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Weber Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 12:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ENQ/DEQ for CICS Transaction ID We are looking to restrict a transaction from being run concurrently. We have launched two other transactions (the code below) that ENQ/DEQ this one transaction. Using displays we were expecting to see all of the displays of these two other transactions to follow one after the other; instead they are mingled. This suggests that they didn't run one after the other. Is the following code sufficient or even unworkable? I have read that ENQ/DEQ can be used for transactions and not only with shared memory resources. Also, does some other ENQ information need to be set up? Thank you so much... XXXX refers to the transaction id and XXXXXXXX refers to the program associated with this id. 000024 EXEC CICS 000025 ENQ RESOURCE(XXXX) 000027 RESP (WS-CICS-RESPONSE) 000028 END-EXEC 000038 EXEC CICS 000039 LINK PROGRAM('XXXXXXXX') 000040 RESP (WS-CICS-RESPONSE) 000041 COMMAREA (WS-PARAMETER) 000042 END-EXEC 000044 EXEC CICS 000045 DEQ RESOURCE(XXXX) 000046 RESP (WS-CICS-RESPONSE) 000047 END-EXEC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
