sysview CTASKS inconsistent data

[Martin Svidrnoch]

Hi,

We are comparing Transaction which are schedule in control-m with sysview  in panel CTASKS  thru rexx  and time to time TRAN  in CTASK panel dissapear and we got false alarm. 

Detail description:

In practise it means controlled execution of a transaction on a named CICS. Only one thread can be active at a time on a CICS region.
The process is initiated by a batch job that issues a wake-up
event, e.g.
CITHRD 'J071W01A TULOS0 A 16-07-2019 999 Y N N'

(for migration, also:)
EX CITHREA3 'J071W01A TULOS0 A 16-07-2019 999 Y N N'

OPS traps the event and starts the thread on CICS, e.g.
F J071W01A,D208 TULOS0,A,16-07-2019,999,Y,N,N

When CICS has accepted the thread, messages are issued:
+PD201P0 -0040I-E:Dispatcher (CICS task 0092046) st
+
+D208 TULOS0,A,16-07-2019,999,Y,N,N
+D2081E - Dispatcher Control.
+*-----------------------------------------------------------
+* Profile : TULOS0 Process option: A
+* Date : 16/JUN/2019 Priority: 999 Autodeactivate: Y
+*-----------------------------------------------------------
+PD208I0 -0015I-E:Dispatcher activated.

The task which number is on "PD201P0 -0040I" is supposed to be
active until the thread is terminated:
+PD201P0 -0039I-E:Dispatcher (CICS task 0092046) sh

This number is compared from ctm message and  sysview CTASKS panel by XVEXTRAC Task#  


When CICS notifies the termination of the thread, a CONTROLM cond
is set:
COND TULOS0-OK ODATE 1607 ADDED
COND IT-TULOS0-OK ODATE 1607 ADDED


 it was working for a quite long time but it seem lately it makes lot of false alarm because numbers are not correct and it's not shown in sysview 
Did you have any similair problem ? Was in sysview 15.0 ptf 7 some changes in CTASKS panel ?

-Br M

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Martin Švidrnoch
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[Douglas Miller]

Martin,
Feature PTF 7 SO01737 did cause a problem related to CTASKS.  See PTF SO05678 for the correction.

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Software Engineer
Broadcom
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[Martin Svidrnoch]

Hi, 

we finally had service window in our production system so we install the latest PTFs (also SO05678) but this problem still occures, Do you have any suggestion ?



I have one other question. I have checked the PTF thru camodid cmd (camodid dsn(HLQ.SYSVIEW.CNM4BLOD) ptf(SO05678)) and it's there. That's fine but when i put LISTMOD in sysview  i cannot find in FIXLEVEL collumn that PTF and also that modules

GSVC0TAS
GSVC1TAS
GSVC6TAS
GSVC7TAS
GSVC8TAS
GSVC9TAS

but they are in *blod dataset   shouldnt it be there if sysview using those ? 

-br M

[Douglas Miller]

Those particular modules get loaded in each CICS region E-PVT area, so they (the one that matches the level of your target CICS asid) will show on CMODS rather than LISTMODS.  However, I do not recall having seen a problem where CTASKS was totally missing an active transaction.  Maybe check the start/end range in the resulting transaction record against when this REXX exec ran.  I'd suggest opening a support case if you need further assistance with this.

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Regards,
Doug Miller
Software Engineer
Broadcom
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