On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Andy Robertson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have just gotten a panicy request from an applications group who are
> getting -911 SQL abends under CICS.
>
> These are of course timeouts.
>
> They want some way to wait n seconds and retry.
>
>
> Simple, sez you - but the kicker is that it is highly desirable the
> relevant programs in these applications not contain EXEC CICS statements,
> for reasons which are basically down to wanting to share source code across
> the batch and CICS environments.
>
> They want a CALLable subprogram to do the job.
>
>
>
> We are at z/OS 1.8 so CEE3DLY CEE3DLYM are not yet available
>
> ILBOWAT0 and BPX1SLP are AFAIK not useable under CICS, nor are things like
> STIMER WAIT
>
> I can't see how to do it.
>
>
> So, has anyone got any bright ideas???????
>
>
>
>
> Andy Robertson
>
> Could they not check that they are running in a CICS environment and then
call a subroutine to do an EXEC CICS DELAY ?  Or am I oversimplifying
things.

Jim McAlpine

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