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Application-managed Services

A service must manage its own resources if:

The application accesses files or databases (or both) in a transactional way, and contains transactional logic: that is, it includes COMMITs and ROLLBACKs
The application uses a resource manager that we do not support in the Enterprise Server environment; see the list in Supplementary Information.

A service in which the application accesses files in a non-transactional way (that is, it does not includes COMMITs and ROLLBACKs), should be application managed.

A transactional application-managed service must contain all the transactional logic it needs, that is, it must complete with all resources either committed or rolled back.

CAUTION:

A CICS EXCI call can only be executed in a service that is Container Managed. An EXCI call executed in an Application Managed generates an abend: EXIA

Application-managed services are executed in a similar way to applications in a conventional execution environment such as Enterprise Server or Enterprise Server. One of the main differences is that the process is not terminated at the end of execution of the service.