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Abstract
Replay of the online education to introduce Trace, Dump, and Debugging for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS). This was the first no charge "CICS Academy" event intended to help provide education for early tenure systems programmers, but all were welcome. The presentation was provided by IBM Support on 10 September 2025.
Level of Difficulty: Easy to Intermediate
Content
Click Introduction to handling CICS trace, dump, and debugging to be taken to the z/OS Academy Community were you can view the replay and PDF of the presentation.
Objectives of this presentation:
- Learn the basics of what an abend is, and how to debug it
- Understand and separate system problems
- Interpret dumps on z/OS and understand how to take the correct dumps for failures
- Understand how to start IPCS and enter the commands required to view the dump taken for a problem
- Know what resources are available to resolve a problem
- Build your confidence so you are able to troubleshoot future problems
Find more presentations: IBM education for CICS TS and the CICS Tools
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Product Synonym
CICS/TS CICS TS CICS Transaction Server
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04 March 2026
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