CEDA 

INTRA PARTITION TD QUEUE : It is a goup of sequential records which are produced by the same and / or different transaction within a CICS region. These Qs are stored in only one physical file (VSAM) in a CICS region, which is prepared by the system programmer. Once a record is read from a queue, the record will be logically removed from the queue.

EXTRA PARTITION TD QUEUE:  It is a group of sequential record which interface between the transaction s of the CICS region and the systems outside of CICS region. Each of there TDQs is a separate physical file, and it may be on the disk, tap, printer or plotter.

The enter and PF keys transmit data from the screen; the PA keys tell CICS that a terminal action took place, but data is not transmitted.

- Use a COBOL II CALL statement to invoke a subprogram. This method is transparent to CICS, which sees only the one load module. 

- EXEC LINK is similar to a call; it invokes a separate CICS program and ends with a RETURN to the invoking program

- EXEC XCTL which transfers control to another CICS program and does not get control 

back. 

COBOL II allows for static calls which are more efficient than the LINK instruction which establishes a new run-unit. 

The CICS translator converts the EXEC CICS commands into call statements for a specific programming language. There are CICS translators for Assembler, COBOL, and PL/1.

The INTO option moves the information in the TIOA into the reserved specified area, while the SET option simply returns the address of the TIOA to the specified BLL cell or address of a linkage-section.

The following commands are available for the Program Control services:

LINK: To pass control to another program at the lower level, expecting to be returned. XCTL: To pass control to another program at the same level, not expecting to be returned.

RETURN:  To return to the next higher-level program or CICS. 

LOAD: To load a program. 

RELEASE: To release a program.

- NOHANDLE is an option that can be specified along with abnormal condition during program execution.

- When the exception occurs, no action is performed during execution of NOHANDLE command.

- The abnormal condition is ignored, even the EXEC CICS HANDLE condition exist.

- The abnormal condition is also ignored when EXEC CICS IGNORE condition is tested.

- The previous HANDLE CONDITION for other commands will not be effected with NOHANDLE option.