OPEN 12 in CICS Batch.

[Prashant Kumar]

Hi,

We have the following batch command in CICS. The first statement started failing. Though it had been like that since 2006. Please advise what's wrong?

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VIEW       	PROD.CNTLLIB(ABC123OP) - 
Command ===> 	                                  
****** 	***************************** Top of Data
000001 	OPEN 12                                 
000002 	OPEN ABCHST                             
000003 	OPEN ABCHXR                             
000004 	OPEN ABCHSTA                            
000005 	OPEN ABCHSTB                            
000006 	OPEN ABCHSTC                            
000007 	OPEN ABCHSTD                            
000008 	OPEN ABCHSTE                            
000009 	OPEN ABCHSTF                            
000010 	OPEN ABCHSTG                            
000011 	OPEN ABCHSTH                            
000012 	OPEN ABCHSTI                            
000013 	OPEN ABCHSTJ                            
000014 	OPEN ABCHSTK                            
000015 	OPEN ABCHSTL                            
****** 	**************************** Bottom of Data

[Robert Sample]

Please advise what's wrong?

Something has changed.

That's about all that anyone on this -- or any -- forum could say given the limited information you provided. I STRONGLY recommend you start looking at what has changed recently to cause the command not to work. Start by looking into CICS software upgrades, application software upgrades, program changes, and vendor software changes. Most likely the change occurred in one of these, but if you don't find it in them you'll need to keep looking since something changed. And since we don't work at your site, we don't have the access to even look at the issue.

[Prashant Kumar]

Thanks. But I could not find 'OPEN 12' as a command in CICS. Is that really a command? We had our CICS updated to 5.2 years back, there might be a patch installed but there is no measure update since then.

[Robert Sample]

"OPEN 12" is not a command with any CICS that I'm aware of, but it could be a command for some software product.

[Prashant Kumar]

Thank you Robert. This is really keeping me busy, I am not yet able to figure this out that why this command was first used.