Transaction definitions for extra alias transactions

You may want to use other alias transaction names for various reasons.

Auditing purposes
Resource and command checking
Allocating initiation priorities
Allocating database plan selection
Assigning different runaway values for different CICS® programs

If you do, you must also define these to CICS, copying the definition from CRPA, and making amendments as necessary. The CRPA definition is as follows:

DEFINE  TRANSACTION(CRPA)       GROUP(DFHRP)
        PROGRAM(DFHRPAS)        TWASIZE(0)
        PROFILE(DFHCICST)       STATUS(ENABLED)
        TASKDATALOC(BELOW)      TASKDATAKEY(USER)
        RUNAWAY(SYSTEM)         SHUTDOWN(ENABLED)
        PRIORITY(1)             TRANCLASS(DFHTCL00)
        DTIMOUT(NO)             INDOUBT(BACKOUT)
        SPURGE(YES)             TPURGE(NO)
        RESSEC(NO)              CMDSEC(NO)

If you want a CICS program to run under an alias with a name other than CRPA, you can enter this in the connection manager when defining the attributes of the 4-tuple associated with the CICS program, as described in Defining the attributes of a 4-tuple. The name of the alias can also be changed by the Decode function, as described in Changing the alias and CICS program.