The NACT sample transaction is used in the book Designing and Programming CICS® Applications, published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc; ISBN 1-56592-676-5, to demonstrate the design and development of CICS applications. It is a COBOL pseudoconversational 3270-based CICS application that operates on the customer account file of a fictitious company, KanDoIT.
The NACT application provides the following services:
The logic of the application is divided into the following pseudoconversational steps:
The Link3270 sample client programs request the record number for customer name JACOB JONES; retrieve the record and display, or store, the retrieved record.