What are the differences between an EXEC CICS XCTL and an
EXEC CICS LINK command.



What are the differences between an EXEC CICS XCTL and an EXEC CICS LINK command...

Answer / mahesh

Its all about the program logical level.

PLL will be incremented in LINK (Control will come back)

PLL will be the same in XCTL.(Control wont come back)

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