What is a CICS transaction?

What is a CICS transaction?

- A set of operations that performs a task together.

- Thousands of transactions per second are supported by CICS easily, on IBM System z servers.

- A CICS transaction can be written in programming languages like COBOL, PL/I, C, C++, REXX and Java.

- Every transaction is assigned with a unique identifier.

- CICS screens are sent as a construct map.

- Every map receives the inputs from the end user.

- An example sends a map through COBOL is
EXEC CICS
SEND MAPSET(MPS1) MAP(MP1)
END-EXEC.