Common queues have interrelated entries that may become corrupted due to abends and unexpected losses of connectivity. A corrupted common queue may cause certain requests to not be processed. DFSMShsm automatically corrects some inconsistencies, but for others, it is necessary to issue the AUDIT COMMONQUEUE command. The AUDIT command enables DFSMShsm to dynamically correct inconsistancies with minimal impact on processing.
The structure of the common queues is not externalized. Message ARC1544I is the only output that AUDIT COMMONQUEUE returns. It does not return a specific message for each error because individual error messages are of no value. The OUTDATASET, SYSOUT, and TERMINAL parameters are not used with AUDIT COMMONQUEUE.
Unlike other AUDIT functions, auditing a common queue is not time intensive and may be performed at any time.