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Status Delivered
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 13, 2017

CICSTERMP: TranID as a parameter to the -P command

Hi,

We've developed some scripts to reproduce the functionalities of the VPS/DRS product used by customer in their zOS environment.

To put you in the context: we used the cicstermp command with a script to get the generated file by CICS transactions, and do some processing before sending it (via 'lp' command) to a printer on the network. In some cases there may be some issues and we don't want to lose the temporary file (generated by TXSeries), so the script put it in a dedicated directory using a name in the following format:
REGION_NETNAME_DATE_TIME_PID
For the jobs submitted to the printer (through CUPS), we need to identify the printing job by the transaction ID instead of a sequence number.
For users it is difficult to recognize the type of the file from the NetName and Region. Users want to have at least the name of the transaction that generated the file, and I cannot get this information.
They want also to be able to identify the printing jobs from CUPS administration console and control them (reprint/cancel/...).
Can you please add this information as the last parameter passed to the '-P' command (after the temporary file).
This is an example of the command we are actually using:
cicstermp -r CICSA -n NET00001 -P ./printingManager.sh NET00001 CICSA
So the file will be the third parameter and we want to get the transaction name as the last (fourth) parameter.

Sreejith already provided a working patch with this feature.

Regards,
Mossaab Stiri

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Dec 3, 2020

    This feature ask has been addressed in TXSeries 9.1