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infoman123 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 10

Any one having idea about RLFC abend.....its happening to one cics pgm recently.It was working file for last 3 years..there was no change done in the pgm but its abending with RLFC.... i dont know whts the reason for that.. Can anyone help me in this.

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Infoman

kanak · Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 259 Location: India

RLFC - File control requests exceeded.
This is basically resource-Limiting Abend Codes. It might can happen that resource which are being used by your CICS are now used by many programs running cuncurrently in OS. Some more type of resource limiting abend code are:

Code: RLAD ADABAS requests exceeded.
RLCP CPU utilization exceeded.
RLDB DB2 requests exceeded.
RLDC DATACOM requests exceeded.
RLDL DL/I requests exceeded.
RLDS DSA storage utilization exceeded.
RLED EDSA storage utilization exceeded.
RLEL Elapsed time exceeded.
RLID IDMS requests exceeded.
RLMQ MQ requests exceeded.
RLSU SUPRA requests exceeded.

infoman123 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 10

Kanak,

thnx for the info.But how we can avoid this abend.Do we need to do anything in our program.My doubt is then why only this program is getting this abend.

Regards
Infoman

keshanch · Guest

Hi,
Its all happened b'coz of more file requests to your file. May be in the past your requirement has been met before the file requests exceed the threshlod limit defined. But its not so now.

solutions:

1. Find out the threshold limit defined for that file and make sure to stop processing te file once it reaches the threshold limit. Every read, start, end will be considered as a file request. Have a counter to track the number of requests on the file.