What is meant by a CICS task?

CICS Interview Questions

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What is meant by a CICS task?

A CICS task exist from the time the operator presses the enter key until the application program returns control to CICS.

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Other Interview Questions

• How many conditions can you include in a single HANDLE CONDITION command?
• What is task control and what are the CICS commands associated with it?
• What is the command used to send a map to a terminal?
• When an XCTL is done, does the tranid change ?
• What is the CICS supplied transaction which performs syntax checking of a CICS command?
• What is the common work area (CWA)?
• How do you access storage outside your CICS program?
• How do you define Task Work Area?
• When you compile a CICS program?
• What are the two ways of breaking a CPU bound process to allow other task to gain access to CPU.
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