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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 15, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

CICS Transaction Server 5.4 Documentation for Async Service Domain

Fault analysis software like SmartScope, AbendAid and Fault Analyzer require an understanding of the various control block, anchors and domains when post processing system failures (SVC Dumps). APIs and SPIs are not available when analyzing SVC Dumps. Failure to publish the basic information and relationships about new domains prevent fault analysis products from highlighting errors in the affected domain. In-particular, any failures in Async Service Domain processing could not be annotated at this time without additional control blocks to map the anchor block and vital control blocks and storage chains.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 14, 2019

    We have assessed this requirement. We have no current plans for this to be implemented and so this requirement is being declined at this point.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 6, 2017

    We believe that the requirement is for third party tools to be able to obtain information to assist in debugging applications.
    For the new async service domain this information is the understanding of the parent child relationship.

    This would be:
    1) What children does a parent have, and what are their status.
    2) What parent does a child have.
    3) Is a child an orphan, and who was its parent.

    In the absence of a better interface to get this information we would be able to provide those control
    blocks which give this specific information.

    Debugging the domain itself would be the responsibility of the IBM service team itself for
    which we provide the IPCS dump formatter.

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