Terminal paging

Terminal paging allows the user to prepare more output than can be conveniently or physically displayed at the receiving terminal. The output can then be retrieved by pages in any order; that is, in the order in which they were prepared or by skipping forward or backward in the output pages.

Terminal paging also provides the ability to combine several small areas into one area, which is then sent to the terminal. This enables the user to prepare output without regard for the record size imposed by the output terminal.

CICS® provides the terminal operator with a generalized page retrieval facility that can be used to retrieve and dispose of pages.