Receiving
You can choose whether to process data in small segments or all at once.
Your choice depends upon various factors including:
- Processing convenience
- The amount of data that you expect
- The size of the data area that you can use
- What you are doing with the data
- How the back-end application operates
- Whether you want to handle responses (see Specialized FEPI functions for this feature).
The data is a standard inbound data stream, exactly as is sent to the simulated terminal from z/OS® Communications Server. It is quite possible that there will be occasions on which you will receive no data; for example, when the back-end system needs to set a protocol indicator.