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Question 13

 

When Language Environment is placed in the LNKLST, will any CICS regions be affected?

Answer

If you are running CICS V3.3, then CICS issues a BLDL for module 'CEECCICS' to determine whether to attempt to start Language Environment in the initializing region. This means that if the SCEERUN dataset, which contains CEECCICS, is located in your LNKLST, then CICS will attempt to initialize Language Environment, even if your STEPLIB and DFHRPL has COBOL II and COBOL II libraries placed at a higher level in your LNKLST concatenation. This is why it's recommended that for CICS V3.3, the rollout of Language Environment be done using a STEPLIB approach until all regions are migrated from COBOL II to Language Environment. After the migration is complete, using the LNKLST is no longer an issue.

APAR PQ06896 (PTF UQ0992) will correct this problem and you will be able to put Language Environment in the LNKLST without any problems.
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