Transient data control
The CICS® transient data control facility provides a generalized queuing facility. Data can be queued (stored) for subsequent internal or external processing. Selected data, specified in the application program, can be routed to or from predefined symbolic intrapartition or extrapartition transient data queues.
Transient data queues are intrapartition if they are associated with a facility allocated to the CICS region, and extrapartition if the data is directed to a destination that is external to the CICS region. Transient data queues must be defined and installed before first reference by an application program.
- Write data to a transient data queue (WRITEQ TD command)
- Read data from a transient data queue (READQ TD command)
- Delete the contents of an intrapartition transient data queue (DELETEQ TD command)
If the TD keyword is omitted, the command is assumed to be for temporary storage. (See Temporary storage control for more information about temporary storage.)
Java and C++
The application programming interface described here is the CICS API, which is not used in Java™ programs. For information about Java programs using the JCICS classes to access transient data services, see Java programming using JCICS and the JCICS Javadoc documentation. For information about C++ programs using the CICS C++ classes, see Using the CICS C++ OO foundation classes.