Dealing with BTS errors and response codes

Each time one of your applications issues a CICS® command, CICS automatically raises a condition to tell it how the command worked. This condition (which is usually NORMAL) is returned by the CICS EXEC interface in the RESP and RESP2 options of the command.

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If something out of the ordinary happens, the application receives an exceptional condition, which means a condition other than NORMAL. By testing this condition, it can tell what happened, and possibly why.

The tasks that you can perform include: