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FREE HOSTBRIDGE DEMO
Learn how HostBridge lets you build web services from CICS transactions, process dozens of screens in one click. Interactive demo. June 29, 11am CDT.
HOSTBRIDGE EXHIBITS @ CA MAINFRAME MADNESS
Visit the HostBridge booth for white papers, case studies, product literature, and webcasts focused on integrating CA mainframe resources. On demand in June.
INNVOTATE 2010: IBM RATIONAL CONFERENCE
Join IBM and partners June 6-10 in Orlando, Fla., for technical workshops & demos on building, delivering, managing innovative solutions that run on System z.
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| Thank you for reading The CICS Spotlight. Each month we bring you insightful information to help you better manage and fully leverage the computing power of your mainframe-centric computing environment.
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An Overview of CICS Channels and Containers
by Steve Burghard
Ever since command-level programming was introduced in CICS in 1975, an in-memory process called the communications area (COMMAREA) has been used to pass data from one application to another. From its inception, the size of the COMMAREA was held in a half-word data field—the EIBCALEN—which limited the size of the COMMAREA to 32KB. Although this was a problem, since most application...
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