______________ is commonly termed as a communication area as it happens to be for temporary storage area.

CICS (Customer Information Control System) is middleware from IBM that sits between the z/OS IBM mainframe operating system and business applications. CICS provides services for running an application online, by request, at the same time as many other users are submitting requests to run the same applications, using the same files and programs. CICS manages the sharing of resources, the integrity of data and prioritization of execution, with fast response.