IBM

CICS 3.1 Debugging

Course Code: CDA (Also known as: CDAGB)      Days: 3
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Somerset
Bath (BA1) 13/10/08 £ 1,150
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Course Overview

To help solve CICS system and program failures by improving the skills needed to read and analyse dumps. To develop a step by step approach for resolving dumps through debugging the dumps provided in the course. To develop skills necessary for keeping 'up' time to a maximum.

Audience

CICS Systems and Applications Programmers who are responsible for solving CICS Systems and Transaction dumps.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have at least three months CICS programming experience.

Course Outline

Architecture

  • Domains
  • Gates
  • Kernel Linkage

Causes

  • External symptoms
  • Incorrect data displayed
  • Transaction ABENDs
  • System ABENDs
  • No response looping
  • No response - waits

Messages

  • CICS generated messages
  • Relation to Dumps
  • Format of CICS generated messages
  • Sample DFH messages
  • ABCODE interpretation

Dumps

  • Identifiers
  • Tables
  • Transaction
  • System

Working with Hexadecimal

  • Understanding hex
  • Displacements
  • Addresses
  • Conversions

Tracing

  • Where
  • What
  • Formats
  • Recommendations

Significant Application Domain Control Blocks

  • Task Control Area (TCA)
  • EXEC Interface Block (EIB)
  • Task Abnormal Condition Block (TACB)
  • Storage Check Zone (SCZ)
  • Terminal Control Table Terminal Entry (TCTTE)
  • Terminal Input-Output Area (TIOA)
  • Storage Accounting Area (SAA)

Transaction Dump Solving

  • Understanding the data
  • Categorizing the dump
  • Relating to Source
  • Finding COBOL statements
  • Finding Variables
  • Key Domain Structures
  • Kernel
  • Dispatcher
  • Transaction Manager
  • Program Manager

System Dump Solving

  • General Techniques
  • Waits
  • Storage Violations
  • Structure of Storage Manager


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