Freeing the session

You must free the session after issuing a SEND LAST command, or when the EIBFREE field has been set.

The command used to free the session has the following format:

  FREE SESSION(conversation-name)

CICS allows you to issue the FREE command at any time that your transaction is in send state. CICS determines whether the end-bracket indicator has already been transmitted, and transmits it if necessary before freeing the session. If there is also deferred data to transmit, the end-bracket indicator is transmitted with the data. Otherwise, the indicator is transmitted by itself.

Because only some IMS input components accept a stand-alone end-bracket indicator, this use of FREE is not recommended for CICS-to-IMS communication.