Troubleshooting DBCTL

In a CICS-DBCTL environment, you need to correlate information produced by the CICS® system with information produced by the DBCTL system. This information includes trace entries produced by CICS and DBCTL, dumps produced by CICS, the DRA, and DBCTL, and messages produced by CICS, the DRA, and DBCTL.

The link between CICS and DBCTL in all these cases is the recovery token. It appears in trace entries, in dumps (including the dump header), and in messages issued by CICS and DBCTL.

For detailed component descriptions of DBCTL, which can be useful in debugging, see Reference: diagnostics. For similar guidance on messages and abend codes issued by the DRA and by DBCTL, see IMS messages and codes in IMS product documentation.