The cicsping utility opens a TCP/IP connection to a CICS region. Then, it starts the SYPG transaction on the mainframe and sends a message to SYPG. Finally, cicsping receives an “echo” response from SYPG when it executes successfully.
If your network is configured correctly, cicsping returns a short message. The last two lines should read:
ECHO DATA = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz test completed in 1081ms
