CICS container link support
RAD v7.5 has two new importers called COBOL CICS Channel to Java and PL1 CICS Channel to Java, which can be used to create J2C Java applications for COBOL/PL1 sources that contain CICS Container or Channel commands. Containers and channels can be described as follows:
| Containers Named blocks of data designed for passing information between programs. You can think of them as named communication areas (COMMAREA). The size of a container is limited only by the amount of storage that you have available.
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| Channels Containers are grouped together in sets called channels. A channel is analogous to a parameter list. There is no limit to the number of containers that can be added to a channel.
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The new CICS channel support enhances how data is transferred between programs, especially because COMMAREAs were limited in size to 32 KB.