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.

For programming information on each EXEC CICS command, see the CICS API command summary or CICS SPI command summary .

For details of how to use the CECI transaction, see Command-level interpreter (CECI) , which includes an example of a complete session with CECI.

Start the transaction by entering CECI on the command line of the screen, as follows:

CECI

Press ENTER to get a list of all EXEC CICS commands. If you then enter the command or its abbreviation on the top line and press ENTER, you get a complete display of the syntax for that command.

Alternatively, you can enter CECI together with the name of the command in which you are interested and bypass the full list of commands; for example:

CECI asktime

In both cases, you can usually go on to check the syntax of the command, change it if required, and then process the command.

Many CICS system programming commands use CVDA values and CECI shows numeric equivalents for these. See CICS-value data areas (CVDAs) for programming information, including a translation of these numeric values to their alphabetic values.