Depending on which platform you invoke your application from, the output when using the Transcript class is written to different places.

When you start Smalltalk under CICS on the workstation and use the Transcript class from a Transcript, workspace, or browser, the output is written to the Transcript window on the workstation.

When your packaged application image, started from a CICS workstation terminal, uses the Transcript class, the output is written to a log file named abtcics.log. The file is located in the CICS core dump or runtime directory. The log file is appended to with each invocation of an application. For example, if you run an application fifty times that prints "Hello World" to the Transcript, the abtcics.log file will contain fifty lines reading "Hello World".

If your use the interactive debugger, when the interactive debugger starts all Transcript output is re-directed to the XD Transcript window on the workstation. To direct all output to the transient data queue instead of the XD Transcript window, use the class named TranscriptTTY.