Locks held by a transaction, until a transaction is committed or rolled back, can block the progress of other requests in CICS or in any other system operating against the database.
Therefore, to maximize request concurrency, transactions should be committed or rolled back as soon as possible so that locks on database objects can be released as soon as possible. It is particularly undesirable to hold locks while awaiting terminal input because of the relatively long duration of a terminal wait.
Conversational and pseudo-conversational applications should be written to minimize lock duration, the length of time a lock is held, by using frequent commits.