Global work area

The GWA is the main anchor point for the CICS® socket interface. It contains general status data, work areas, and pointers to other control-block chains. You can locate the GWA in a dump of the CICS region by issuing the IPCS VERBX CICSxxx 'UEH=3' command, and searching for EZACIC01.GWA. The EZACIC01 prefix identifies it as the GWA for CICS sockets.