Developing COBOL programs for CICS

COBOL programs that are written for CICS® can run under CICS Transaction Server. CICS COBOL application programs that use CICS services must use the CICS command-level interface.

When you use the CICS compiler option, the Enterprise COBOL compiler handles both native COBOL statements and embedded CICS statements in the source program. You can still use the separate CICS translator to translate CICS statements to COBOL code, but use of the integrated CICS translator is recommended instead.

After you compile and bind your program, you need to do some other steps such as updating CICS tables before you can run the COBOL program under CICS. However, these CICS topics are beyond the scope of COBOL information. For further information, see the Related tasks.

You can determine how runtime errors are handled by setting the CBLPSHPOP runtime option. For information about CICS HANDLE and CBLPSHPOP, see the Related tasks.