Running more complex transactions
You can run more complex 3270 transactions that produce intermediate messages, are conversational in design, or are pseudoconversational.
The basic mechanism described in Running a 3270 transaction from BTS assumes a straightforward, “one shot” transaction, where the 3270 transaction does an EXEC CICS RECEIVE MAP , followed by one or more EXEC CICS SEND MAP requests, and ends with an EXEC CICS RETURN . In practice, things are not always so simple.
The topics in this section describe how to run various complex transactions: