What is the difference between CICS Program Control Table
(PCT) and CICS Processing Program Table (PPT) ?
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Answer / wanglun
PCT:
1. one entry per transaction code
2. All transaction available to CICS should be defined in
PCT
3. contains the transaction code, corresponding program and
activivation count.
PPT:
1. One entry per program , mapset and partition set.
2. ALL program to be execcuted in CICS should be defined in
PPT
3. contains EXEkey, storage location and status of program
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Answer / sahil maini
PCT : Contains Transaction ID and associated program name,
language and TASKREQ key for initiating the Task through a
key.
PPT : Contains Program name and MAPSET name.
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Answer / krishnakumar
PCT contains the trans-id and the name of the program
related to it
PPT contains the address of the program mentioned in PCT
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Can we define 2 entries in PCT table for one transaction referring 2 programs?
Example
TRAN1--program1
TRAN1--Program2
is it possible since TRANSID should be unique?
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