Using CICS SEND with the Personal Communications GUI
Use the following information when sending a file to CICS using the Personal Communications graphical user interface (GUI):
Figure 1 shows the command and information you must provide.
Enter it as shown (including parentheses), except that you can use
either uppercase or lowercase letters.
Note:
- ␢
means to insert a space. There must not be a space between h: and fn.
- For DBCS sessions, insert a left bracket ([) before (options.
Figure 1. CICS SEND Personal Communications GUI Syntax

- A
- The workstation drive and path of the file to send.
- B
- The name of the workstation file to send.
- C
- The short name of the host session, and the host file name of the file to send.
- D
- Optional changes made to the file during transfer. More than
one option can be specified. Valid options are:
- ASCII
- BINARY (for SBCS sessions)
- CLEAR
- CRLF
- JISCII (for Japanese DBCS sessions)
- NOCLEAR
- NOCRLF (for SBCS sessions)
- NOSO
- PROGRESS
- QUIET
- TIME(n)
Note: For SBCS sessions, the default options are ASCII and CRLF; for DBCS sessions, the default option is BINARY.