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Thanks for your prompt response and clarifying the issue... You folks provide an excellent product at an inexpensive price, yet provide such prompt and competent service which certainly greatly exceeds my expectations.
~ Douglas Becker - Pierce County Technical Support - Tacoma, WA

"When MacKinney Batch to CICS became available as a replacement for CICS/CEMT from Batch, we did not hesitate to give it a try. Since installing MBC our production jobs are running much faster and we have experienced fewer file enqueue delays. You guys are (and always have been) fantastic!"
~ Clint R. Augustine, IT Tech-Services, Siemens Communications

"At first I thought the task was going to be scary because the Customer didn't want any interruptions much less an outage. But as I looked through the migration manual for MacKinney Batch to CICS, I was able to prepare an execution plan and present it to the Customer. The results were 100% up-time and the conversion was an easy flow. The Customer even commented they 'wished all products from vendors were as thorough as MacKinney' and I give the credit to you guys for the support provided during the implementation and beyond. As a result of installing MBC, the batch jobs take less time to process (that's a plus, reduced CPU consumption), thus more time is available for CICS transactions. Users also like the reporting details when jobs need attention (or not), based on the return codes. Big thanks from our customer Daltile."
~ Dick Zavala, Online Technical Support, IBM Global Services

MacKinney Batch to CICS Features

Resource grouping allows you to allocate or unallocate all of the resources in a group with a single command. Applid grouping allows you to target multiple regions with a single command. IF/ELSE/ENDIF and SET logic gives you operational control over command results. Dynamic run-time options allow you to automate decisions or require manual intervention. Let MacKinney Batch to CICS know what you want done and leave your batch-to-CICS communication troubles behind.

MBC uses an EXCI interface for quick connections between batch and CICS
Interface with your external security manager for complete security of your resources
IF/ELSE/ENDIF logic to allow conditional execution of commands
SET logic allows overriding return codes to alter your JOB flow
Support for unlimited CICS APPLIDs
APPLID Groups allow routing commands to up to 999 APPLIDs with a single command
Resource Groups allows unlimited file/transaction/program resources to be allocated or unallocated with a single command using commands (ALOG and UNAG)
Command pre-processor User Exits in Batch and CICS allow you to send and process your own internal commands
A command User Exit allows you to block commands based on the Userid and the target CICS Applid
Dynamically override runtime options for an individual job step with OPTR command
Open and close CICS files with an optional verify on the close
Allocate or unallocate CICS files
Allocate or unallocate TD Queues (MVS only)
Change file attributes from update to read-only and back as required
MBC supports DL/I files
Start and stop the DB2 interface (MVS only)
Open and close CA-Datacom/DB databases
NEWCOPY or PHASEIN programs
Initiate a CICS Shutdown (This command can be restricted or not allowed)
Link to programs passing an optional commarea
Start a transaction with optional parameters for termid, data length and data