Inquiry Conversation
In an inquiry conversation, the client sends one request for information and the server generates one response, as summarized in Actions in Inquiry Conversation. (Both the inquiry and the response can comprise any number of logical records.) This type of conversation appears in many kinds of data processing applications.
| Client Actions | Server Actions |
|---|---|
| Send one or more records. | |
| Receive. | |
| Receive and process the records. | |
| Send a response consisting of one or more records. | |
| Continue to Receive until all response data has arrived. | Close. |
| Close. |
When you design transactions to this model, the server transaction programs are very simple. Each handles one instance of one type of query and then terminates. The client transaction program requests a conversation with the server transaction program that can answer the desired type of query. The LU 6.2 API services locate and start a copy of that server transaction program.