CICS-value data areas (cvdas)

There are options on a number of commands that describe or define a resource. CICS® supplies, in CICS-value data areas, the values associated with these options. The options are shown in the syntax of the commands with the term "cvda" in parentheses.

You pass a CVDA value in two different ways:
You receive a CVDA value by defining a fullword binary data area and then testing the returned value with the translator routine DFHVALUE. For example:
EXEC CICS CONNECT PROCESS .... STATE(AREA-A)
IF AREA-A = DFHVALUE(ALLOCATED) ....
IF AREA-A = DFHVALUE(CONFFREE) ....
The CVDA values and their numeric equivalents are listed in the following topics: