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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 4, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

Enhance EXEC CICS ASSIGN with ASRABEAR option

The EXEC CICS API for ASSIGN returns many data items related to program checks (e.g. ASRAKEY, ASRAINTRPT, ASRAREGS, ASRAPSW, etc).

But the one item that is not available to the ASSIGN API, that would be of great benefit for solving a wild branch, is the BEAR (Breaking Event Address Register).

It could be requested either as

EXEC CICS ASSIGN ASRABEAR(8-bytes).

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 8, 2020

    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. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 5, 2019

    This is the same as RFE 73322.

    All this information, and a lot more, is provided in the TACB which is available in the various XPCABND related global user exits as well as the PEP. The TACB (and an abend can create more than one!) is where we've always added new abend related information; not only is the BEAR in there but there's also things like the TEA (useful for 0C4s), application context (where applicable), and now the vector registers and so on. These global user exits and the PEP are driven very close to when the actual abend occurred, any sort of processing in a HANDLE ABEND PROGRAM is always going to be a suspect since a lot may have happened in between. Doing something in the XPCxxx GLUEs and/or the PEP is going to be a much more useful, more accurate and is where we will generally add new information as/when required (vector registers being a recent case in point).

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