Our CICS guy wrote a program that queries all the active transactions and then determines how many seconds it has been running. We then kill off the 'looping' transactions'. He does a 'EXEC CICS INQUIRE TASK LIST ' to get the list of tasks and then issues 'EXEC CICS INQUIRE TASK(WSWA-TASK-NUM)' with the ATTACHTIME parameter to get the amount of time the transaction has been running. We also write out messages telling what we are doing. I suppose you could feed those into your AOC.
Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Detecting looping CICS transaction > > "Dave Menist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED] > m> > ... > > Hi, > > > > I hope that someone can help with or has some insights into the > > following questions. > > > > Is it possible to detect if a CICS transaction is looping in such a > > way that it can be passed on to AOC? AOC is used to generate a IRM-a > > ticket which is the trigger to start investigating. I know there is > > the "CICS under stress" message which may indicate that a trx is > > looping. But it might also be something else. > > > > Are there other more precise ways to detect a looping trx? (that can > > be passed on to AOC) > > > > The reason for asking these questions is to minimize the reaction > > time and to start investigating as quickly as possible. Hopefully > > minimizing the inconvience to other developers. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave > > We have a monitor that attempts to detect when ANY address space is looping and issue a message which can be trapped by your automation tool. It's not my code but I must have got it from someone on this list but I don't know the legality of passing it on. Jim McAlpine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
