CICS supplied transactions descriptions

The transactions that have operator interfaces are described in the following section. A complete list of CICS supplied transactions is also provided.

CBAM - BTS browser
Use CBAM to browse the CICS® business transaction services (BTS) objects (process-types, processes, activities, containers, events and timers) known to this region.
CCRL - certificate revocation lists transaction
Use the CCRL transaction to create and update the certificate revocation lists (CRLs) that are stored in an LDAP server. Use CCRL if you are implementing SSL in your CICS regions and want each connection checked for a revoked certificate during the SSL handshake.
CDBC - database control menu
Use CDBC to connect CICS to DBCTL, or to disconnect CICS from DBCTL. CDBC is applicable only to CICS systems using the IMS Database Control (DBCTL) interface.
CDBI - database control inquiry
Use CDBI to inquire about the status of the interface between CICS and DBCTL. You can start CDBI from 3270 (and 3270-like) terminals or from the operating system console.
CDBM - database control interface
Use the CDBM transaction to issue DBCTL operator commands from a CICS terminal. CDBM is applicable only to CICS systems using the IMS Database Control (DBCTL) interface.
CEBR - temporary storage browse
Use the CEBR transaction to browse temporary storage queues and to delete them. You can also use CEBR to transfer a transient data queue to temporary storage in order to look at its contents and to re-create the transient data queue when you have finished.
CEBT - master terminal (alternate CICS)
Use CEBT to control an alternate CICS system in an extended recovery facility (XRF) environment.
CECI - command-level interpreter
Use CECI, which invokes the CICS command-level interpreter, to enter an EXEC CICS command, check its syntax, and modify it if required. In most cases, you can also process the command.
CEDA - resource definition online
Use CEDA to define resources to your CICS system while the system is running. With CEDA, you can update both the CICS system definition (CSD) file and the running CICS system.
CEDF and CEDX - the execution diagnostic facility
The CICS execution diagnostic facility (EDF) provides two transactions that you can use for testing application programs.
CEKL - master terminal (emergency use)
Use CEKL to remove tasks from a system in a situation where you cannot issue the CEMT transaction.
CEMN - CICS monitoring facility
Use the CEMN monitoring facility transaction to inquire on the settings for the CICS monitoring facility and to change some of the settings without needing to restart CICS.
CEMT - master terminal
Use CEMT to invoke all the master terminal functions. The master terminal program provides dynamic user control of the CICS system. By using this function, an operator can inquire about and change the values of parameters used by CICS, alter the status of the system resources, terminate tasks, and shut down the CICS system.
CEOT - terminal status
The CEOT command allows you to inquire about the status of your own terminal, and to change some of its values. You cannot use CEOT to inquire about or change the values of any other terminal.
CESF - sign off
Use the CESF transaction to sign off from the CICS system.
CESL - sign-on long
Use CESL to sign on to CICS using a password or a password phrase or similar authenticator.
CESN - sign on
Use CESN to sign on to CICS by using a user ID and a password or a similar authenticator.
CEST - supervisory terminal
Use CEST to invoke a subset of the master terminal (CEMT) transaction. The CEST INQ|SET commands allows you to inquire about and alter some of the values of lines, netnames, tasks, and terminals.
CETR - trace control
Use CETR to control CICS tracing activity.
CIDP - inactivate debugging profiles
Transaction CIDP is a utility transaction which you can use to inactivate all debugging profiles in your system. For example, you might choose to run the transaction at the end of the normal working day to ensure that no active profiles remain in a system that is unattended.
CIND - indoubt testing tool
Use the CIND transaction to test the effect of indoubt failures on application programs. You can also use this transaction to produce shunted units of work (UOWs) to test programs that use SPI commands to inquire on, and change the characteristics of, shunted UOWs and unshunt UOWs that have been shunted using CIND.
CLDM - CICS load module map
Transaction CLDM is used to generate a CICS load module map. The load module map can be used by the z/OS® hardware instrumentation service or during problem determination to help identify a program that has been loaded by the CICS loader domain.
CLER - Language Environment runtime options
The CLER transaction is provided by Language Environment® and is not shipped as part of the CICS Transaction Server product.
CMAC - messages and codes display
Use CMAC to display information about CICS messages and codes.
CMSG - message switching
Use CMSG to send messages from your terminal to one or more destinations.
CPIA - unit of work resynchronization transaction
To avoid a warm restart, use the CPIA transaction to resynchronize Web Services Atomic Transaction (WS-AT) units of work and to remove shunted units of work.
CSFE - terminal and system test
Use CSFE to diagnose terminal problems and software problems. This transaction is mainly intended to be used by system programmers and IBM field engineers.
CSGM - “good morning” panel
By default, users of CICS see the “good morning” panel that is displayed when they log on to CICS as a VTAM application.
CSPG - page retrieval
Some transactions, especially those performed on screens, produce a response that is too large to be displayed or printed at one time. The whole response is held on direct access storage, and only the first portion (called a page) is displayed. You can manipulate these pages, through basic mapping support (BMS), using the CSPG page retrieval transaction.
CWTO - write to console operator
Use CWTO to send messages to the console operator.
DSNC - CICS DB2 transaction DSNC
Use DSNC to enter DB2 commands and carry out a range of other CICS DB2 tasks.

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