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Doing basically a CEMT I TRA from within a program?


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Reapr

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 2:28 pm
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Hi,

I wrote a program like this 10 or so years ago, but haven't been coding in CICS since then, so I remembered I did it, but can't remember how.

The purpose:
Developers here have the problem that they had a transaction fail and it was disabled, but nobody was aware it was disabled until customers started complaining.

The solution (back in the day)
So I wrote a program that would cycle through a list of transactions to be monitored, if a transaction was disabled, it would raise the alarm.

It would run every 5 minutes and was autostarted as part of CICS startup.


My problem now:
I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it. It was something to do with asking CICS where it stores this transaction info - it would respond with an address and then you would assign the data at that address to a working storage area in your program.

You could then interrogate the data to find out if the transaction is disabled or not.

Anybody know what I'm on about?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:18 am
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Similar inquiry, albeit batch, ibmmainframes.com/about53113.html

CICS monitoring tools typically handle this. Contact CICS support team.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:47 am
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Thank you, unfortunately the CICS support team at current site is less than helpful.

I still can't find the way I did it at a different site, but I started aimlessly paging through the CICS Manuals and did stumble across this:

INQUIRE TRANSACTION
www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.4?topic=commands-inquire-transaction

Seems this has been added since I last coded.

It does return transaction status (ENABLED/DISABLED) and will suit my needs.

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