With CICS you do not want to put anything in place that could delay its actions.
A lot of shops will be reluctant to shave even one second off a CICS transaction. It could have a major impact. So CICS has some help inside the product. CICS does produce DFH messages that document some but not all Errors. And in some cases it will force a dump. For example DFHSR0001 applid An abend (code aaa/bbbb) has occurred at offset X'offset' in program progname. Explanation An abnormal end (abend) or program check has occurred in program progname. Storage protection is active, and CICS was executing in USER key at the time of the abend or program check. The code aaa is a three digit hexadecimal MVS system completion code (for example, 0C1 or D37). If an MVS code is not applicable, this field is filled with three hyphens. The four digit code bbbb, which follows aaa, is a user abend code, produced either by CICS or by another product on the user's system. Message DFHME0116 should be produced containing the symptom string for this problem. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 9:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Catching CICS Transaction ABENDs? > > Thanks. Might do so. It's not so much "handling" as just being notified of ABENDs > programmatically. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 8:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Catching CICS Transaction ABENDs? > > You might, if you have not done so, join the CICS Newsgroup. > > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/cics-l.html > > > There are processes available in CICS to handle abends. > > Depending on what problem you are trying to solve, that group may be more helpful > > Lizette > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Charles Mills > > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 8:48 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Catching CICS Transaction ABENDs? > > > > I have been asked this question and I don't know enough about CICS to > > even > be > > dangerous. > > > > What sort of facility might one use to write a program to be notified > > in > real time of > > CICS transaction ABENDs? For example, can CICS be configured to write > > an > SMF > > record (that one could intercept in IEFU8x) in the event of a > > transaction > ABEND? > > Or does it drive some CICS-specific exit? Or . ? > > > > Thanks, > > Charles > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
