CICS Transaction Server for z/OS searches

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The name for each CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® sample search is shown with a brief description of what the associated query looks for.

CICS Transaction Server Abend or Severe Messages

Searches for CICS Transaction Server messages that have the format DFHccxxxx, where cc represents a component identifier (such as SM for Storage Manager), and xxxx is either 0001 or 0002 (which indicates an abend or severe error in the specified component).

For example: This sample would search for DFHSM0001 but not for DFH0001.

CICS Action, Decision, or Error Messages

Searches for CICS messages that indicate any of the following situations:

Immediate action is required.
A decision is required.
An error occurred.

The search is based on the CICS message IDs and on an action code of A, D, E, S, or U.

CICS Transaction Server Key Messages

Searches for a set of predefined message numbers to determine whether any of the messages occurred.

CICS Transaction Server Messages

Searches for CICS Transaction Server messages, which start with the prefix DFH or EYU.

CICS Transaction Server Short on Storage Messages

Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS messages that indicate that a storage shortage occurred.

CICS Transaction Server Start Stop Messages

Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS messages that are written to the system log while the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS is started or stopped. Messages with the following numbers are examples:

EYUXL0010I
DFHPA1101

CICS Transaction Server Storage Violations

Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS messages that indicate that a storage violation occurred.

List of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS searches that are based on System Management Facilities (SMF) data

To obtain results from the following searches, CICS Transaction Server for z/OS must be active and configured to create SMF 110 records. For more information, see SMF 110 data generation.

CICS Job Performance: Searches for records that have a program name of DFHSIP or EYU9XECS.
CICS Transaction Server Exceptions: Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS exceptions that occurred.
CICS Transaction Server Policy Exceptions: Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS SMF policy-based exceptions that occurred.
CICS Transaction Server Summary: Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS transaction summary interval records that occurred.
CICS Transaction Server Summary End-of-Day: Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS end-of-day transaction summary records that occurred.
CICS Transaction Server Task Limit Met: Searches for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS transaction records where the number of active user transactions equaled the specified maximum allowed number of user transactions.
CICS Transaction Server Wait on Storage Exceptions: Searches for CICS storage manager messages and CICS Transaction Server for z/OS SMF Wait on Storage exceptions.