The error file is called DFHMAERF and contains information about
any errors that have occurred.
There are two sections in the error file. The first contains some
standard information, so no matter what type of error has occurred, the fields
in this section will always be present. The second section contains specific
information about the nature of the error.
- Review the first section of the formatted error file dump. This will give you the error message that was issued, the request name
that was being processed when the error occurred, the program that was running
and other useful information.
- Look up the error message that is listed in the Error field. This will indicate what error occurred and the actions the system took.
In many cases, there will be some user actions that are described in the message.
- Check the Type field to indicate what server adapter the error
occurred in. The meanings of the values are listed in Type: (ERR-REC-PROGRAM-TYPE).
For a complete list of the fields that are provided in this section
of the error file dump, see Static portion of the formatted error file dump.
- Review the second section of the formatted error file dump. The Error detail field marks the beginning of this section. The fields
vary depending on the type of error that occurred, as indicated by the Type
field. The fields for each type of error are described in Dynamic portion of the formatted error file dump.
- In particular look at the CICS RESP and RESP2 fields. Look up the codes in the CICS Appplication Programming Reference.
This manual contains the definitions for all of the RESP and RESP2 codes that
are returned by CICS commands and should give you a good idea of why there
was a failure.
- If the error occurred in a Link3270 server adapter, this second
section displays the inbound and outbound Link3270 bridge message field values.