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Dialog Flows for Online and Batch Procedures

You can create dialog flows for online and batch procedures. The following restrictions exist with batch procedures:

• You cannot connect a batch procedure or any of its steps to another procedure
• Only transfers are allowed
• Transfers to a prior procedure step are not allowed (forward or self-referencing transfers only)

Both online and batch procedure steps can be joined to themselves (known as a self-referencing transfer or link). This feature lets you control the checkpointing frequency of your database tables. Online procedure steps can have self-referencing links and transfers. Batch procedure steps can have
self-referencing transfers but not self-referencing links.

Dialog flows are permitted to and from online procedure steps without screens.

Note: Batch is only available on MVS.