Segmentation concerns how a program interacts with its environment before issuing a converse statement that presents a web page to the user. Web transactions are always segmented, which means (among other things) that EGL frees system resources while the user responds to the web page.
The EGL-generated CICS® COBOL program is segmented, which means that the program leaves memory after issuing the converse statement and is returned to memory when the user responds. For more information, see Behavior of segmented programs on CICS or IMS.
The segmented converse (either simulated, for Java generation, or actual) is available for both main and called web transaction programs.
The segmented property is theoretically available for a web transaction program, but is ignored because all web transactions are segmented.