ASRA abend for PRF in CICS region

riteshsingh92 · New User Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 17 Location: India

Hi

I am getting below abend when try to run PRF in CICS region can someone help me why its getting and how to resolve it.

Thanks.

"prfDFHAC2206 10:00:38 CICSNBS Transaction PRF failed with abend ASRA. Updates to local recoverable resources backed out. "

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:53 pm

PRF is not a CICS transaction since it does not start with a C. Either it is a vendor product -- in which case you need to contact the vendor for assistance -- or it was written at your shop, in which case you need to use the standard debugging methodology of your site to figure out the problem.

valyk · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:27 am

9/10 times you are gettig a SOC7. Check your storage.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:58 am

Generate the transaction dump and review the address of the Next Sequential Instruction (2nd-word from the left in the PSW display). To get to the actual failed instruction, look for the instruction length code (ILC) and subtract this from the NSI address. You'll also have to subtract X'26' from the NSI address (I'm assuming this is COBOL/CICS) as X'26' is the length of the COBOL/CICS stub.

You can also re-compile the program to expand the COBOL Verbs into Assembler instructions.

If you find the NSI address in the expansion (and you should), then go to that instruction in the expansion and then the failed instruction will be the one just above it.

Nine times out of ten, it will be a failed decimal-instruction due to bad data. The ZAP (Zero and Add Decimal/Packed) is a very common instruction to raise a S0C7. It's OP Code is X'F8'. But there are others, such as a CP (Compare Decimal/Packed), OP Code X'F9', AP (Add Decimal/Packed) OP Code X'FA', etc....

Bill

shreejita · New User Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 60 Location: chennai

Sorry All,

I am facing problem in COBOL-CICs program.

I gone thru our previous post and unable to understand following details.

1. What should be the PARM parameter to get transaction dump

2. What is Program status word says in that list

3. How to get NSI values

4. As site say we have to do minus from something ...what's that

Plz explain me and thanks in advance

Regards

Earl Haigh · Active User Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 475

shreejita,

it sounds like you are in over your head. debugging an ASRA problem
is pretty basic CICS stuff. Ask your fellow programmers for help OR
contact your CICS Technical support.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:27 am

I agree with Earl that you are in over your head.

What is your version/release of CICS (IE: CICS/TS 2.3)?

Go to ===> publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/library

Click "Browse Shelves" and wait until all the shelves have begun listing.

Then, enter CICS and press the Find button.

You will then need to go to the appropriate CICS version/release shelf and click on "CICS Operations and Utilities Guide".

Depending on your version/release, the transaction dump program begins with DFHDU then suffixed with the CICS version/release. For CICS/TS 2.3, that suffix will be 630, so search for DFHDU630 for this version/release and you'll find what you are looking for. For CICS/TS 3.1, that suffix will be 640.

This is why 3rd-Party debuggers have a noose around many a programmer's neck and without them, many folks just don't know the procedure(s) to debug a program "The Old Fashioned Way".

You're also going to need a z/OS Reference Summary, for the syntax of the instructions you'll be searching for.

An old "Yellow Card" will probably be OK....

Bill