Using cicsterm

The cicsterm command enables you to work with terminal emulator sessions.

The screen color attributes and keyboard settings of the terminal emulator can be customized with mapping files. This is useful for example if keyboard layouts are required to comply with a company standard. Terminal definitions can be automatically installed on the CICS server and do not have to be predefined.

You use the cicsterm command to:
  • Start a emulator session.
  • Specify the characteristics of a terminal emulator.
  • Specify the file name of a keyboard mapping file. The default cicsterm keyboard mappings are those defined by cicskey.ini. For information about customizing keyboard mappings see Keyboard mapping for cicsterm.
  • Specify the file name of a color mapping file. The default the cicsterm color mappings are those defined by cicscol.ini. For information about customizing color mappings see Customizing the screen colors for cicsterm.
  • Run multiple terminal emulation sessions to one or more CICS servers at the same time.

You cannot connect to CICS® over IPIC using the cicsterm command because IPIC does not support 3270 data flows. See Which protocol can be used? for details of which protocols you can use to connect to CICS when using cicsterm.

Windows platforms

When you run cicsterm the system detects whether the hardware on which the Client daemon is running is enabled for double-byte character set (DBCS) display. If DBCS is enabled, the terminal emulator can display DBCS characters. Some servers and protocols require a model terminal definition for the terminal emulator. The model terminal definition specifies explicitly that cicsterm must display DBCS characters.

If you are using a mouse, a single click moves the cursor to the position of the mouse pointer. A double click when a transaction is in progress is equivalent to pressing the Enter key. A double click when a transaction is not in progress has no effect.


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