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Tips, tricks and shortcuts designed for CICS programmers More Tips: http://search390.techtarget.com/tips/?track=NL-168&ad=480830 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ____________________________________________________________________ FROM OUR SPONSORS: - Data Center Decisions -- June 2-4, 2004, Chicago http://datacenterdecisions.techtarget.com/html/registration.htm?track=NL-168&ad=480830&Offer=390home ____________________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE | Table of Contents 1. FEATURED CICS TIP - CICSml? CIXML? Hmmmm. How about just CICS<->XML? 2. 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Click: http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit?track=NL-168&ad=480830 MORE INFORMATION ON CICS: BEST WEB LINKS: CICS http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1540,00.html?track=NL-168&ad=480830 WEBCAST: Inside SOAP for CICS http://search390.techtarget.com/webcast/0,295011,sid10_gci901686,00.html?track=NL-168&ad=480830 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390.COM FEATURED TOPIC | Top ten Ask The Experts responses Looking to learn assembler? Mulling over migrating to z/OS? If so, you should read these Ask the Expert responses, which have proved to be the most popular among your fellow mainframers. >> For this week's featured topic, CLICK: http://www.search390.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci960089,00.html?track=NL-168&ad=480830 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ASK THE EXPERT | CICS and the COBOL dynamic linkage process A Search390.com member asked: "We have a service module that returns several system fields and also the calling chain (or path) of a program under CICS. It runs through the PLCB chain to find the module names. However it provides only the names of the programs that are LINKed and not the ones that are dynamically called. 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