Getting Resp 14 for 'EXEC CICS LINK' call

y3mvl · New User Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 4 Location: chennai

Hi all,
I have created a program with PLICICS for a background processing of an online call.
This is program is tested regressively and all went fine at unit testing and system testing.
But now in Performance testing, I'm getting Resp as 14 in a 'EXEC CICS LINK' call.

I'll explain the scenario,
-> 'EXEC CICS LINK' call is the first call in the program.
-> In performance testing, 5 transactions were tried to run concurrently, among which all got abended.
-> Last three transactions gave the above said error.
-> First one is input data error.
-> Second one is the Duplicate record error for the file. I know the reasons for this error.

Note: I'm working on CICS only for the past few weeks. I'm somewhere in between 'Beginner' and 'OK' when it comes for CICS.

Hope I'll get to solve this issue as soon as possible.
Thanks in advance.

Deru Sudibyo · New User Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Indonesia

Did you specified SYNCONRETURN option? If so then should not be executed concurrently which potentially cause its mirror task in remote system was overlapping. Execution time of LINKing program with SYNCONRETURN option must not overlap with its mirror task.

What is MROFSE=? If YES, probably there was oberlapping of task life time which caused one or more mirror task was active when LINK with SYNCONRETURN was issued.

Otherwise, is either program issuing LINK or targeted reentrant? If so, try make it reentrant. Non reentrant program probably causes extra time for loading process which potentially overlap each other.

Earl · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:40 am

THis sounds unusual,
are you sure eibresp from CICS LINK is 14 ?

or is the program you are linking to getting eibresp of 14

please show a sampling of your source code and where you are
getting the repsonse code 14