INQUIRE IRC
Show the IRC status.
Conditions: NOTAUTH
For more information about the use of CVDAs, see CICS-value data areas (CVDAs).
Description
The INQUIRE IRC command indicates whether interregion communication (IRC) is open, closed, or in a transitional state in your CICS system. IRC must be open for your CICS region to communicate with another CICS region using any of the multiregion operation (MRO) facilities (IRC, XM, or XCF).
Options
- OPENSTATUS(cvda)
- returns
a CVDA value identifying the status of IRC in the system. CVDA values
are:
- CLOSED
- IRC is closed for this system, or is not present in the system.
- CLOSING
- A SET IRC CLOSED request to quiesce MRO has been received; tasks that were already using an MRO link are being allowed to complete, but new tasks cannot use an MRO link.
- IMMCLOSING
- A SET IRC IMMCLOSE request to shut down MRO immediately has been received. Tasks that were using an MRO link are being terminated abnormally.
- OPEN
- IRC is open for this system.
- XCFGROUP(data-area)
- returns
the 8-character name of the cross-system coupling facility (XCF) group
of which this region is a member.
If this region is not a member of an XCF group (because it has not signed on to IRC), XCFGROUP contains the XCF group the region would be in if XCF were opened.
For introductory information about XCF/MRO, see Cross-system multiregion operation .
Conditions
- NOTAUTH
- RESP2 values:
- 100
- The user associated with the issuing task is not authorized to use this command.