Reports produced by PRINT

This topic contains information about the reports produced by CICS® VR PRINT.

CICS VR provides support for printing records from logstreams used for undo logs, forward recovery logs, and replication logs. The same logstream can be used as a forward recovery log and a replication log, but the undo log is separate. A replication log contains undo replication records and redo replication records. If the same logstream is shared as a forward recovery log as well, then each redo record is marked as both a forward recovery record and a replication record.

For each block to be printed, the report consists of:
  1. The block header record
  2. Detail for each record in the block, with information about specific fields in the record. This detail includes log type (replication or none), record type, file information, and key type, where it can be determined.
  3. The entire record in hex format.
  4. A summary record.
Note: If the record type is not recognized, only the hex dump is printed.

Record types

Where the record type is recognized, two parts are provided for the description. If the first part is one of:
  • CICS autojournalled redo record
  • CICS forward recovery redo record
  • CICS VR forward recovery redo record
  • CICS replication redo record
Then the second part of the description can be one of:
  • file close record
  • read only
  • read update record
  • tie up record
  • write add record
  • write add complete
  • write delete record
  • write update record
If the first part of the record type description is:
  • CICS VR batch backout undo record
  • CICS replication batch backout undo record
Then the second part of the description can be one of:
  • End of job step
  • Get-for-Update/Erase
  • Put Add
  • Start of job step

Examples of a record type description are: CICS forward recovery redo record, write add complete and CICS replication redo record, write add complete.

File information

File information such as the file ID, filename, and filetype is provided in the report if the information is present in the record or if the information can be extracted from an earlier tieup record.

Key line

The key line value can be KEY, XRBA, RBA, or RRN. Subsequent information is displayed in the same format as the record with a hex dump and then character data.