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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:41 AM, Winchester Terrythe
<terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Although CICS was solid communications interface, I was glad to leave
grunt work"conversational" world and move to the midrange where most of the
user towas done by the OS ... and "smart" files :)
I don't know what "conversational" means in this context, but Dave
Clark was saying that display programming on the IBM i *is*
conversational, and that CICS gives you a choice of conversational or
not.
Here's what he said, exactly:
The mainframe CICS programming standard is that
you don't leave programs/transactions active while waiting for the
bekey things in on the screen because this ties up resources that could
i)used elsewhere. You can make it conversational (as it is on the IBM
and therefore have no issue with state -- but, as I said, that is not
recommended.
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