The CICS® Service Flow Runtime manages as much state information as required to support the work to satisfy one invocation. To be clear, understand that this state information refers to the business request state data and information.
Once the invocation is satisfied, state information is not retained and is not maintained across multiple invocations of CICS Service Flow Runtime. In the case of a failure, CICS Service Flow Runtime retains state information and application data for subsequent use in a compensation flow. See How compensation processing works for more information.
The way in which CICS Service Flow Runtime manages state information for Link3270 bridge server adapter request processing varies according to the processing pattern (Aggregate connector persistent or Single connector nonpersistent). The state management processing for each Adapter service type are described in the following sections.