Gathering requirements for conversational processing

When you use conversational processing, the person at the terminal enters some information, and an application program processes the information and responds to the terminal. The person at the terminal then enters more information for an application program to process. Each of these interactions between the person at the terminal and the program is called a step in the conversation. Only MPPs can be conversational programs; Fast Path programs and BMPs cannot be conversational.

Definition: Conversational processing means that the person at the terminal can communicate with the application program.