Hi Tom.. Let me start by saying I don't know anything about Solve.
Now to my question. Are you talking about individual CICS transactions going away or are you talking about the whole CICS region going away? If you are talking about individual CICS transactions then you could handle things in the following way. Have someone write a simple CICS program that sends out a screen with the needed information. Then you could point the transaction that is going away to that simple program. If you are talking the whole CICS region going away then I'm not sure what you could do within Solve. I guess if the CICS region only supported one transaction and you used Solve to logon the person to that region and then automatically launched the transaction you could use my suggestion about. Paul -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Longfellow Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Ideas for less-distruptive disruptions - Netmaster:Solve and CICS Our mainframe is scheduled for termination. As such, bits and pieces are being turned off. Management edicts wants "no sudden surprise screens and error messages" when a function is killed. A "landing screen" has been proposed that would do the required hand holding with messages like "Thanks for playing" "This is gone" "Call someone who cares" and maybe "Counselors are on call for your withdrawal needs" I am scrambling for ways to implement this to kill one thing and replace it with another things that is not dead (yet).. The SOLVE product is basically a session switcher that takes your 3270 terminal to another active VTAM application. I am wondering if there is a way to change the menu item on the switching screen to replace it with the "landing screen". For example, it currently connects you to a CICS region. Is there something else it could do within Solve to just blast them "landing screen" when they select the menu item? I am not a CICS programmer I just start and stop CICS regions. I am picturing some kind of 3270 based transaction that could just present the "landing screen" and nothing else. I would then replace my current welcome menu with this new transaction. Ending this transaction could even be used to initiate a sign off from CICS. Anybody have ideas on how to get from here to there and allow this mainframe to die politely and with dignity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
