Help required in deciphering CICS Abend

genesis786 · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:22 pm

Hi

We are getting a storage violation abend (4094) in one of CICS transactions in production environment.

We tried to simulate it in test but were not successful. I also tried going through some of the topics on forum for abend code 4094, but couldn't relate much.

I have the dump of fault analyzer with me which i can share.

Could anyone please help in deciphering the dump from fault analyzer in finding out any clues.

Jose Mateo · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:25 pm

Good day!

U4094 is a LE abend code, is there a CICS transaction abend code?
Is the abend associated with a modification done to one or more online programs? What messages are been display on the SYSLOG during the abend? Storage violation are very difficult to solve but not impossible so you should get as much information on the abend, your system programmer could lend you a hand on using some utility on detecting the storage violation.

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:31 pm

Storage overlays can be difficult to debug since the instruction causing the overlay may be far away from where the program actually abends. I would guess the GETMAIN in TRACE entry 370 is not long enough to hold all the data, but it would probably require IPCS on a system dump to confirm that. The GETMAIN length plus the address gives ...FD86, and since the storage overlay appears to be at ...FD90 (which would be in the middle of the 8-byte trailing identification block.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:48 pm

Webcast replay: Debugging Storage Violations in CICS -

www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007891

genesis786 · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:23 pm

Thanks everyone. I will try to gather more info as you have pointed above and get in touch with sys progs.

Thanks Bill for the webcast!