XCTL command

Transfers control from one application program to another at the same logical level. In Smalltalk, the parameters of the XCTL command are contained in two classes: CICSXctl and CICSXctlResult.

See CICS Application Programming Reference for the syntax of the command and a description of its parameters.

Defined instance methods

Parameters supplied to CICS in CICSXctl

 

Parameter	Instance method	Mode	Type	Notes/exceptions
COMMAREA(data-area)	commarea:	Input	Variable
LENGTH(data-value)	length:	Input	Binary 16
PROGRAM(name)	program:	Input	Fixed(8)

Parameters returned by CICS in CICSXctlResult

 

Parameter	Instance method	Mode	Type	Notes/exceptions
RESP	resp	Output	Fixed(2)	Inherited from CICSResult.
RESP2	resp2	Output	Fixed(2)	Inherited from CICSResult.

Example

Transfers control to the program using the communication area MyCommarea, which is a subclass of OsPtr.

| result thisComm |

thisComm := MyCommarea calloc.

result := CICS xctl

program: 'CICSSLK2';

commarea: thisComm;

length: 30;

exec.