Invoking IDEAL from an API using MWSERIES or R2DS

Products

• Ideal

Issue/Introduction

We want to invoke a program made in made in IDEAL from  APIs, using MQSeries and R2DS

Can this be done?

Environment

Release : 15.1

Resolution

An IDEAL application can be executed as an asynchronous task in CICS.
This can be invoked from MQSERIES. If  R2ds can invoke a CICS transaction it will also work.
See Datacom Tools 15.1 documentation section Asynchronous Execution for full details.
Note when using MQSeries, specify N in the last option of the TRNDATA parameter so the RUN PARAMETER clause is not used: TRNDATA='sssppppppppvvvvN' 
This is because MQSeries can generate a parameter greater than 43 bytes which causes the RUN to fail.