PING

CICS TS 2.2 supports full connection and conversation level PING as designed for the CICS family. This consists of defined flows to allow CICS to determine whether specified connections, or particular conversations on a connection, should still be considered active. CICS TS sends a PING request if the RTIMOUT interval is exceeded when waiting for data from a client:

• Send conversation level PING if the client install indicated this was supported.
• Send connection level PING otherwise.
• If it is a conversation PING that has timed out abend the task after sending a connection level PING to see if the client is still active.
• If a connection level PING times out, uninstall the client.