Possible destinations for output

The CICS®-supplied sample classes direct output from JVMs to a directory that is specific to a CICS region; the directory name is created using the applid associated with the CICS region. When you write your own classes, if you prefer, you can send output from several CICS regions to the same z/OS® UNIX directory or file.

For example, you might want to create a single file containing the output associated with a particular application that runs in several different CICS regions.

Threads that are started programmatically using Thread.start() are not able to make CICS requests. For these applications, the output from the JVM is intercepted by the class you have specified for USEROUTPUTCLASS, but it cannot be redirected using CICS facilities (such as transient data queues). You can direct output from these applications to z/OS UNIX files, as the supplied sample classes do.