Resolving retained locks on recoverable resources

This section describes how you can locate and resolve retained locks that are preventing access to resources, either by CICS® transactions or by batch jobs.

About this task

Although the main emphasis in this section is on how you can switch from RLS to non-RLS access mode in preparation for batch operations involving the use of RLS-accessed data sets, it is also of interest for CICS online operation. It covers the following topics:

Quiescing RLS data sets
Switching from RLS to non-RLS access mode
Coupling facility data table retained locks