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Online Packaging Rules

CA Gen lets you package online load modules to meet your system performance and user productivity goals. The factors such as the size of procedure steps and the frequency of use influences packaging decisions.

Online Packaging Rules

During load module packaging, identify the transaction codes and load module that is associated with each procedure step. During program execution, the TP monitor uses the transaction code to determine the load module to execute. The TP monitor through a transaction code invokes every procedure step. Procedure steps cannot call each other directly.

The packaging definition provides CA Gen with the transaction code information it cross-reference procedure steps and load modules with transaction codes. CA Gen does not install these transaction codes into IMS or CICS. This must be done outside CA Gen, before the load module is executed.

CA Gen uses two types of transaction codes (trancodes):