APPC (LUTYPE6.2) single session terminal

An APPC (LUTYPE6.2) single session terminal can be defined as a TERMINAL, with a reference to a TYPETERM with DEVICE(APPC). When these definitions are installed, the resources they define are known to CICS® as a connection and a modeset, just as they are when defined in RDO as CONNECTION and SESSIONS. The name of the connection is the TERMINAL name and the name of the modeset is the MODENAME on the TERMINAL definition.

An APPC terminal may be a PS/2, an Application System/400 (AS/400), a System/38, or similar. You can define an APPC terminal either by a TERMINAL-TYPETERM definition or by a CONNECTION-SESSIONS definition. Both kinds of definition can be autoinstalled (see Autoinstalling VTAM terminals and Autoinstalling APPC connections for information about autoinstall). If you decide to use the TERMINAL-TYPETERM method, the following attributes are important:

DEVICE

The TERMINAL definition references a TYPETERM with APPC (advanced program-to-program communications) specified as the DEVICE. One such TYPETERM definition suffices for many terminals.

MODENAME

This is the name that CICS uses to identify the session when the definition is installed in the active system.