Submit CICS commands from a batch job

It is possible to submit commands to a CICS region from a jcl jobstream. The JCL uses the MVS Modify command to execute the CICS commands.

The format of the modify command is :

F jname,cicscommand

 jname is the job name or taskid of the CICS region.
 cicscommand is the CICS command to be executed. 


 Note: In order for this to work, a console entry in the CSD must have been defined. For CICS running under MVS prior to SP 4.1 it will be CONSOLE(00), for CICS running under SP 4.1 or later it will be CONSNAME(INTERNAL).

 The following job shows you how to submit commands:


//CICSMOD1 (acct-info),CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
//*
//*
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
// F CICSREG1,'CEMT SET PROG(EBR001) NEW'
// F CICSREG1,'CEMT I TER'
//

You can omit the apostrophes round the command if you wish, but if there are sequence numbers at the end of the line a warning message is displayed on the console (the command will be executed never-the-less.)