Sending Email from CICS

If you are not sending email from CICS in your shop, you really need to add that capability. If you do not currently have a need for it, “build it and they will come” … The reasons for sending email from within CICS will start popping up like nobody’s business once it is in place.
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Finding the z/OS Sysname in CICS

Today I’ve got a simple but neat little tip to share. Have you ever had a need to know which z/OS system your CICS program is running in? I found myself in that situation today, needing a way to programmatically set the hostname in the URL in a CICS web application. The CICS web application [...]

CALL or LINK?

It’s an old question … In my CICS program, should I invoke a subprogram using a standard COBOL CALL, or should I use the EXEC CICS LINK API?
The traditional answer was, “LINK is easier to debug, CALL is more efficient.” However, there have been some changes in the CICS environment in recent years that blur [...]