About the NACT transaction
The NACT sample transaction demonstrates the design and development of CICS® applications. It is a COBOL pseudoconversational 3270-based CICS application that operates on the customer account file of a fictitious company, KanDoIT.
The NACT sample transaction is taken from the book Designing and Programming CICS Applications (ISBN 1565926765).
The
NACT application provides the following services:
- Access to an account record by account number
- Addition of a new account number and account record
- Modification of an account record
- Deletion of an account record
- Access to an account record by customer name
The logic of the application is divided into the following
pseudoconversational steps:
- A menu is displayed to allow selection of the service required.
- The updated menu screen is read; the requested record is obtained and displayed
- If the record is modified, the changes are received and the file updated; the menu is re-displayed.
The Link3270 sample client programs request the record number for customer name JACOB JONES; retrieve the record and display, or store, the retrieved record.