CICS IVP

The my.SVIDCNFG.custom member VIDCDEF adds the CICS IVP program and transaction to the CICS CSD. You must install the group VID before you can run the CICS transaction.

The CICS transaction is VTMV. When you run this transaction, the following screen is displayed:

Figure 1. VTMV IVP transaction screen

  
 ----------------------------  CICS VT IVP TRANSACTION   ---------------------------
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
 Enter ITEM number and press ENTER                 245021                      
                                                                                
 (This transaction will verify that CICS VT is installed and functioning           
 correctly in this CICS system)                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
 Please Enter the ITEM number                                                   
                                                                                
                                                                                
  PF3:END  CLEAR:REFRESH SCREEN

Enter 245021 as the value for the ITEM number and press Enter. The program issues a call to the CICS® VT sample VSAM data set VIDKSDS, which has been migrated to DB2. The VSAM calls are processed by CICS VT in DB2®, and details for this item number are displayed on the screen.

Depending on the security that you have enabled in CICS, you might have to sign on to CICS before running VTMV to establish a thread to DB2. If you don't sign on to CICS, the DB2 connection might be unsuccessful and result in a CICS transaction abend. Typically, this would be an ASP7 abend.