Using the CEBR transaction

You start the CEBR transaction by entering the transaction identifier CEBR, followed by the name of the queue you want to browse.

You can enter a name using as many as 16 characters. For example, to display the temporary storage queue named AXBYQUEUENAME111 you type CEBR AXBYQUEUENAME111 and press ENTER. If the queue name includes lowercase characters, ensure that uppercase translation is suppressed for the terminal you are using, and then enter the correct combination of upper and lowercase characters. CICS® responds with a display of the queue, for example, as shown in Figure 1.

Alternatively, you can start the CEBR transaction from the CEDF transaction. You do this by pressing PF5 from the initial CEDF screen (see Figure 1) which takes you to the working-storage screen, and then pressing PF2 from that screen to browse temporary storage (that is, invoke the CEBR transaction). CEBR can also be started from CEMT I TSQ by entering 'b' at the queue to be browsed. The CEBR transaction responds by displaying the temporary storage queue whose name consists of the four letters CEBR followed by the four letters of your terminal identifier. (CICS uses this same default queue name if you invoke the CEBR transaction directly and do not supply a queue name.) The result of invoking the CEBR transaction without a queue name or from an EDF session at terminal S21A is shown in Figure 2. If you enter the CEBR transaction from the CEDF transaction, you return to the EDF panel when you press PF3 from the CEBR screen.

If you want to use CEBR to display data from a temporary storage queue that has one or more embedded blanks in the queue name, you must enter the queue name in the TS QUEUE field from the CEBR screen, as shown in Figure 1. If you type such a queue name immediately after entering CEBR, unpredictable results will occur

 CEBR TSQ AXBYQUEUENAME111 SYSID CIJP REC 1 OF 3 COL 1 OF 5
ENTER COMMAND ===>
************************** TOP OF QUEUE *******************************
00001 HELLO
00002 HELLO
00003 HELLO
************************* BOTTOM OF QUEUE *****************************













PF1 : HELP PF2 : SWITCH HEX/CHAR PF3 : TERMINATE BROWSE
PF4 : VIEW TOP PF5 : VIEW BOTTOM PF6 : REPEAT LAST FIND
PF7 : SCROLL BACK HALF PF8 : SCROLL FORWARD HALF PF9 : UNDEFINED
PF10: SCROLL BACK FULL PF11: SCROLL FORWARD FULL PF12: UNDEFINED

CEBR TSQ AXBYQUEUEAME1AA SYSID CIJP REC 1 OF 0 COL 1 OF
 1 
ENTER COMMAND ===>
 2 
************************** TOP OF QUEUE
******************************
************************* BOTTOM OF QUEUE ****************************





 3 









TS QUEUE AXBYQUEUEAME1AA DOES NOT EXIST
 4 
PF1 : HELP PF2 : SWITCH HEX/CHAR PF3 : TERMINATE BROWSE
 5 
PF4 : VIEW TOP PF5 : VIEW BOTTOM PF6 : REPEAT LAST FIND
PF7 : SCROLL BACK HALF PF8 : SCROLL FORWARD HALF PF9 : UNDEFINED
PF10: SCROLL BACK FULL PF11: SCROLL FORWARD FULL PF12: UNDEFINED