Paul The answer to your question is BOTH - Individual apps are being yanked before the eventual complete shutdown of everything the region does.
Our internal thoughts parallel your ideas for CICS. One of the hurdles is that since the mainframe is marked for death, we have no real access to application programmers to write the new transaction. I am too old to learn all the skills required to write the code and screen maps for a new program. Solve is a VTAM session switcher. If we ever get a dedicated region with only the "landing page" transaction, I would redirect SOLVE to send the switching definition to the 'death zone' CICS. Has anybody developed an 'Out of Service' transaction for use during periods of extended application or data base maintenance? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
