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chandracdac
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Hi,
is there any way that we can find the program flow in CICS using the transaction of the first program other than using xpediter or some other debugging tool?? |
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Bill Woodger
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Pandora-Box
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Add displays after every para name / section name and you could check traversing path ( If you know could access the displays added in CICS )
But worse part the filling spool is directly proportional to number of times programs is called and might lead to waste of space and would require to remove the displays and deploy and restart of CICS regions |
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Robert Sample
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Nothing in CICS tracks this type of data. You might be able to get it from SMF data, but even if that is possible it would be a royal pain to reconstruct the calling sequences.
Realistically, your only decent choices are to start reading code or start reading application documentation. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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An AUXTRACE may provide you this information. But keep in mind, if sub-program's are being CALLED (not a LINK or XCTL API) during the transaction's life-cycle, they will not be present in the trace.
Check with your friendly CICS System Programmer or Tech Support personnel about running an AUXTRACE. |
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chandracdac
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@Bill
Thanks for your reply.. could you please guide me how we can run this AUXTRACE and would there be any issues if we run this AUXTRACE??
Also is there any way that we can access CICS tables like PCT and PPT from tso/ispf region?? If we can access them i think we can easily find the flow i feel.
Thanks
Chandra. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Talk with your CICS system support. They can advise about seeing what is in the CICS tables.
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| If we can access them i think we can easily find the flow i feel. |
Why do you think this? |
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Robert Sample
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| Also is there any way that we can access CICS tables like PCT and PPT from tso/ispf region?? If we can access them i think we can easily find the flow i feel. |
WHY would "feel" this? There is nothing in either the PPT nor PCT that indicate anything about program flow. Furthermore, since EXEC CICS XCTL and LINK can both use program variables as the program identifier, and the variable could be constructed by the program from up to 8 different data sources (one per byte of the name), I know (not feel) that the task is much more complicated than you understand. |
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chandracdac
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i remember in one of my old project we used to find the full flow using a single transasction. And that was designed in REXX. Not sure what the logic they followed behind the scene  |
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