We have Expediter active in one of our production environments for these type of problems. If you have it, you can turn it on for the one transaction. I have not used Xpediter much since we used to have Intertest, which gave a trace back of the performs - But I imagine that Xpediter will do the same.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump Can't touch the source. That's not my job. The source must be changed by the appropriate programming group, then the changes tested by them, then Model Office, then placed into production. That is what is in progress now. But putting in "debugging output" is against shop standards. Making an ad-hoc temporary change is very difficult, politically. In the mean time, the region occassionally goes into a CPU loop and somebody in my group (Tech Services / sysprogs) has to cancel the task via Mainview/CICS. I was hoping to help the programmers by being able to tell them where and why the loop is occurring. Due to downsizing in the last 2 years, the programmers who are left are no longer the most experienced (but are the lower paid). -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky, PSTI > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 3:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump > > Copy/change the source, and compile the object module into a temporary > STEPLIB. Run the job specifying the STEPLIB and all is still > good with the > world. > > Every account I have worked at had a temporary STEPLIB set > for every JOBSTEP > running in production. This makes life so much easier. It > works wonders > for emergency fixes to a production CICS system too. Just > remember, don't > let the STEPLIB go into secondary extents. > > You will spend countless hours, if not days, shooting this > bug without doing > it the straight forward easy way. > > The inability to change source programs and re-compiling is > just one of the > reasons customers are leaving the mainframe environment for > PC solutions. > Central planning has never worked anywhere it has been tried. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of McKown, John > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky, PSTI > > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:30 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump > > > > Just change the source to place some literal into working-storage > > prior to performing paragraph DO-READ. > > Can't change source in production without a lot of political > pull that I > don't have. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. 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