CICS transaction dump

A CICS® transaction dump is produced whenever a CICS task terminates abnormally.

For a CICS-DBCTL task, that is, a task that issued a DFHRMCAL request to DFHDBAT, this dump includes the following:
  • The CICS-DBCTL global and task local areas
  • The global and task local areas for DFHDBAT
  • PCBs

The recovery token for the task at the point of abnormal termination appears in the TCA (TCARTKN).

The EXEC CICS SET TRANDUMPCODE command and the CEMT SET TRANDUMPCODE transaction enable you to change some of the values recorded in entries in the transaction dump code table, to add new entries to the table, and to remove existing entries from the table. For example, you can specify an action for a particular CICS message, as mentioned in Figure 1.

For information about transaction dump codes and interpreting CICS dumps, see Using dumps in problem determination.