CECS - command-level syntax-checking transaction

Start the transaction by entering CECS on the command line of the screen. Press ENTER. You get a list of all the EXEC CICS commands. Enter the command or its abbreviation at the top of the screen (next to the ?) and press ENTER and you get a complete display of the syntax for that command.

Alternatively, you can enter CECS together with the name of the command in which you are interested, and bypass the full list of commands. For example: CECS asktime

For programming information on each EXEC CICS command, see System commands. Many CICS® system programming commands use CVDA values. CECS shows numeric equivalents for these. See CVDA values for the DEVICE option for programming information, including a translation of these numeric values to their alphabetic values.

An alternative transaction for similar purpose is CECI. You can use CECI, which invokes the CICS command-level interpreter, to enter an EXEC CICS command, check its syntax, and modify it if required. In most cases, you can also process the command. For information how to use the CECI and CECS transactions, see Command-level interpreter (CECI).