TSQs
Question: What is the practical application of TSQs? What is the difference between a TSQ and an ESDS or other VSAM file?
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Answer: A TSQ is a TEMPORARY storage queue. It is used to hold information being passed from one page to the next (either the next execution of the same program or a different program). It can either be set to store the information in main storage or aux storage. In the latter case it actually writes the records temporarily to a KSDS VSAM file. Without using TSQs or TDQs a pseudo conversational CICS program would have no way of passing more than a few hundred bytes of data to itself (or another program) to display the next screen.
