What is meant by an attribute byte?



What is meant by an attribute byte?..

Answer / Digvijay Pratap Singh

In CICS, an Attribute Byte (AB) is a control byte used in data communication. It contains information about the format of the data following it, such as field length, field type, etc. It helps CICS to understand how to process the received data.

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