It’s been decades since I wrote my last CICS application, but if I understand your desire, you want feedback better than an IBM error. If transaction ABCD previously pointed to a program (with maps and everything associated) it’s trivial to create a page that says “Nobody home, go away.” or maybe more like the transaction requested has been decommissioned. Then point to that. Granted, there are a few details, but is that what you want? Also, I’m thinking of a Tn3270 screen. If some GUI apps are calling CICS, that’s a bit different. I retired as we were moving away from the mainframe, but that’s some of what we did. R
Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM, Tom Longfellow <[[email protected]](mailto:On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM, Tom Longfellow <<a href=)> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
