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CICS Message Help Report

The CICS Message Help report is generated for CICS dumps when the #CICSMSG command appears in the OPTLIB member during dump capture. You can also create this report dynamically from the dump viewer using the CMSG command. This report describes the reason for the CICS message, dump code or transaction abend code and in many cases recommends an action.

To view this report, the CADVCMSG DD must allocate the DFHCMACD member of the SDFHMSGS library for CICS when the viewer is started.

The following is a sample CICS Message Help report:

CA SymDump System V9.0 --------- CICS Message Help -------------- Line 1 of 43 Command ===>                                                   Scroll ===> CSR  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CICS Message Help for DFHSM0103                                                 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lvl 2                                                                                            DFHSM0103   APPLID  A STORAGE VIOLATION (CODE                                             X'CODE' ) HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE STORAGE                                     VIOLATION TRAP. TRAP IS NOW INACTIVE.                                                                                                                 EXPLANATION:  A storage violation has been detected by the                      storage violation trap, which may be enabled via the CHKSTSK                    or the CHKSTRM system initialization parameters or via the                      CSFE transaction.  The code X' code ' is the exception                          trace point ID which uniquely identifies the type of storage                    violation detected.                                                                                                                                             SYSTEM ACTION:  CICS disables the storage violation trap.                       An exception entry (X' code ' in the message) is made in                        the trace table.  A system dump is taken, unless you have                       specifically suppressed dumps in the dump table.                                                                                                       F1=HELP      F2=SPLIT     F3=END       F4=DUMP      F5=RFIND     F6=MAP         F7=UP        F8=DOWN      F9=SWAP     F10=LEFT     F11=RIGHT    F12=RETRIEVE