Application programming for CICS function shipping

Introduction to programming for function shipping
If you are writing a program to access resources in a remote system, you code it in much the same way as if the resources were on the local system. Function shipping is available by using EXEC CICS commands, DL/I calls or EXEC DLI commands.
File control
DL/I
You can use function shipping to access an IMS Database Manager subsystem that is associated with a remote CICS system, or a database associated with a remote CICS Transaction Server for VSE system.
Temporary storage
You can use function shipping to send data to or receive data from temporary storage queues located on remote systems.
Transient data
Function shipping allows you to access intrapartition or extrapartition transient data queues located on remote systems. Definitions of remote transient data queues can be made by the system programmer. You can, however, use the SYSID option on the WRITEQ TD, READQ TD, and DELETEQ TD commands to specify the system on which the request is to be executed.
Function shipping exception conditions
Requests that are shipped to a remote system can raise any of the exception conditions for the command that can occur if the resource is local.

Parent topic: Developing in an intersystem environment