Terminal paging through BMS

The application program (using the SEND PAGE BMS commands) builds pages of output data on a temporary storage queue for subsequent display using operator page commands.

Such queues should, of course, be specified as recoverable, as described in Recovery for temporary storage.

The application program should then send a committed output message to the user to say that the task is complete, and that the output data is available in the form of terminal pages.

If an uncontrolled termination occurs while the user is viewing the pages of data, those pages are not lost (assuming that temporary storage for BMS is designated as recoverable). After emergency restart, the user can resume terminal paging by using the CSPG CICS-supplied transaction and terminal paging commands. (For more information about CSPG, see CSPG - page retrieval.)