For the shops I have worked at, I did not setup ffsti am not sure there is a need for it.
Lizette -----Original Message----- >From: "Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN" <[email protected]> >Sent: Sep 18, 2014 11:46 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Help with FFST/MVS and the first failure symptoms component? > >Dear Big Iron People, > > (Still waiting to get on the CICS-L list) > > FFST/MVS (First Failure Support Technology/MVS): > http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.v2r1.e0za100%2Fe0za10015.htm > >Q1). How do we know if we are taking advantage of FFST/MVS? Where can I >look, or what can I enter to know if we have FFST enabled? > > > CICS says a program might call the first failure symptoms component. It's > documented in the CICS TS for z/OS 5.1 Installation Guide in Chapter 30. MVS > ASREXIT - SYMREC Authorization Exit. > > I read the CICS Problem Determination Guide. There are quite a few > references to first failure: > > General CICS tracing is handled by the CICS trace domain. It traces the > flow of >execution through CICS code, and through your applications as well. You can see >what functions are being performed, which parameters are being passed, and the >values of important data fields at the time trace calls are made. This type of >tracing >is also useful in first failure data capture, if an exception condition is >detected by >CICS. > > In addition, exception trace entries are always written to the internal > trace table, >even if no trace destinations are currently started. Other trace destinations >that are >currently started get the exception trace entry as well, but the entry always >goes to >the internal trace table even if you have turned tracing off completely. This >function provides first failure data capture. > > CICS exception tracing is always done by CICS when it detects an exception >condition. The sorts of exception that might be detected include bad >parameters on >a domain call, and any abnormal response from a called routine. The aim is >"first >failure data capture", to record data that might be relevant to the exception >as soon >as possible after it has been detected. > > It may just look like they could be related. I didn't find a section in > the CICS manuals (yet) about a CICS "first failure symptoms component". > >Q2). Does anyone know if CICS "first failure" has interactions with FFST/MVS? > Also would you know where I can find more information on this CICS "first >failure symptoms" component? > > > Thanks, Dave > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
