Two symptoms occur when data dictionaries are absent.
The first, and most common, symptom is a message indicating that data records were encountered before dictionary records. This might be due either to an error in the CMF data or a user-related error. You can cause this error when copying CMF records from one data set to another. When copying CMF records, make sure that the dictionary records are copied along with the data records and appear before their associated data records. If the data set was not copied, the missing or misplaced dictionaries might be caused by an error in CMF.
The second symptom is the occurrence of numerous error messages. These messages tell you that CICS PA was unable to find the indicated data field. This happens when the dictionaries are lost and is due to improper link edit of the dictionary processor, ECPDICMF.
The second problem, absence of data within a particular record type, might be a CMF data error or a user interpretation error. Because many of the fields collected by CMF are optional, you can exclude the data from a particular record. CICS PA issues a message indicating that the field is Missing from the record. Although this is not a severe error, the report might not provide an accurate account of the data. This is especially true on Summary reports. If a data field in the summation is missing for any part of the summarization interval, then the field is marked Missing.