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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2025

Create CICS Situation that tracks the number of abends that occur in the region not number of dumps

This would be an ideal usecase to monitor a region based on number of transaction abends that occur in a region. 

Using the CHANGE parm you could monitor how many abends occur between sampling intervals and if it exceeds threshold set, send email alert highlight transaction abends exceeded 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Nov 11, 2025

    This would be a very useful feature to have.

    By using this situation tracking on (change) total number of abends in a CICS region between sampling periods would provide an alert indicating the region may be in trouble based on number of transaction abends that occured in between sampling periods