Cics Translator Utility Jun 2026

The CICS Translator is a fundamental utility within the IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) environment that enables developers to write application programs using high-level languages like COBOL, C, C++, or PL/I. Since standard compilers do not natively recognize CICS-specific commands—known as EXEC CICS commands—the translator serves as a pre-processor that converts these commands into a format the language compiler can understand. What is the CICS Translator Utility?

Think of it as a . It reads your human-readable source code (with CICS commands) and outputs a “translated” source file where every EXEC CICS command is replaced with a standard language construct—usually a CALL to a CICS service routine (e.g., DFHEI1 , DFHEI2 ). cics translator utility

CALL 'DFHEI1' USING ... (parameter list representing the READ command) The CICS Translator is a fundamental utility within