The CWA in a CICS region is created (optionally) during CICS initialization, exists until CICS terminates, and is not recovered on a CICS restart (warm or emergency). The ADDRESS CWA (ptr-ref) command provides direct addressability to the CWA.
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However, if the CWA contains read-only data, and this data is replicated in more than one target region, it is possible to use the CWA and continue to have the full benefits of dynamic routing. For example, you can run a program during the post-initialization phase of CICS startup (a PLTPI program) that loads the CWA with read-only data in each of a number of selected target regions. In this way, all transactions routed to target regions loaded with the same CWA data have equal access to the data, regardless of which of the target regions to which the transactions are routed. With CICS subsystem storage protection, you can ensure the read-only integrity of the CWA data by requesting the CWA from CICS-key storage, and define all the programs that read the CWA to execute in user key.