Availability of FEEDBACK records
In general, FEEDBACK records are produced for all API commands, whether they are successful or not. However, for some API commands and in some situations, FEEDBACK records are not produced because they would not provide useful diagnostic data.
FEEDBACK records are not available for these commands:
- DISCONNECT and TERMINATE
- When you disconnect an API processing thread from CICSPlex SM, any remaining diagnostic data is discarded.
- FEEDBACK
- The FEEDBACK command cannot report on its own processing.
- TBUILD and TPARSE
- These REXX-specific commands issue a series of API commands internally and reuse the same feedback area. Therefore, the feedback area cannot represent the entire sequence of events.
- A command processes a result set and completes with a RESPONSE value of OK, and no additional information was returned by CICS in the EIBRESP2 field.
- A command is processed asynchronously (that is, you specify the NOWAIT option). The diagnostic data for asynchronous requests is returned in the ASYNCREQ notification resource table.