Tom, I think whoever is responsible for this project is going to have to come up with some help around the CICS stuff. It sounds like Solve is similar to CL/Supersession. I don't think the Solve software will help you much in this situation.
Technically the CICS program does not need a MAP to send out the message. It can do a simple EXEC CICS SEND (without the MAP option) of a text message to the screen with the needed information and then the program would end. Then in CICS you would point the transaction that is being decommissioned to this simple program. If you wanted to get tricky you could put in code to see what transaction is calling the program and customize the message based on the transaction. If it was me, I would just keep the program simple and use a single generic message. Paul -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ideas for less-distruptive disruptions - Netmaster:Solve and CICS Here is a set of CICS transactions to perform DogeCoin transactions via CICS. The first screen could be simplified to be display only, https://github.com/mainframed/DOGECICS On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 4:01 PM Tom Longfellow <[email protected]> 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
