5. FILES

This chapter identifies each file in the CICS and CICS
Transaction Gateway (CTG) Information Areas and describes its
level of summarization and data sequencing as the files
appear in the applicable timespan.
 
The files maintained in the CICS Information Area are:
 
    o   CICCAC - CICS User Application Count File
    o   CICCAU - CICS Application Unit Activity File
    o   CICCDC - CICS Dictionary File
    o   CICCIN - CICS Incident File
    o   CICCSF - CICS File/DBD Activity File
    o   CICCSU - CICS User Activity File
    o   CICCSY - CICS System Activity File
    o   CICCMR - CICS MRO Activity File
The files maintained in the CTG Information Area are:
 
    o   CTGGSA - Gateway Server Activity File
 
The table shown in Figure 5-1 identifies the individual
database files and categorizes them by the information area
to which they belong.  The following information is provided
for each file in the information area:
 
 XDWMYT - This entry defines the timespans in which the file
          is supported.  A nonblank indicates that the file
          is supported.  A period (.) indicates that the
          file is not supported.  The timespans indicated by
          XDWMYT are as follows:
 
          X - DETAIL
          D - DAYS
          W - WEEKS
          M - MONTHS
          Y - YEARS
          T - TABLES AREA
 File - The SAS data set name used to access this file.
 
 File Name - The descriptive label for the file.
 
+----------------------------------------+------------------+
| CICS Activity                          | Date Generated:  |
| Information Area                       |Tue, May 12, 2009 |
+----------------------------------------+------------------+
|                                                           |
| XDWMYT  File    File Name                                 |
|                                                           |
| ......  CICCAC  CICS USER APPLICATION COUNT FILE          |
| X.....  CICCDC  CICS DICTIONARY FILE                      |
| X.....  CICCIN  CICS INCIDENT FILE                        |
| ......  CICCMR  CICS MRO ACTIVITY FILE                    |
| ......  CICCSF  CICS FILE/DBD ACTIVITY FILE               |
| X.....  CICCSX  CICS SYSTEM MONITOR WORK FILE             |
| X.....  CICCTD  TMON/CICS DSA WORK FILE                   |
| .D.MY.  CICCSU  CICS USER ACTIVITY FILE                   |
| ......  CICCAU  CICS APPLICATION UNIT ACTIVITY FILE       |
| XDWMY.  CICCSY  CICS SYSTEM ACTIVITY FILE                 |
|                                                           |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

 Figure 5-1.  CICS Files' Active Timespans

This section contains the following topics:

5.1 Data Element Naming Conventions

5.2 CICS Information Area Files

5.3 CTG Information Area Files