Miscellaneous data-containers - single connector processing pattern

Because error processing, journaling and sharing application data may be necessary at different stages of run time processing, the Error and Journal data-containers are listed together.

Table 1. Miscellaneous data-containers - single connector patterns
Container Type Contents and usage Size (bytes) Name Comments
ERROR

Detailed error information that can be used in problem determination.

256 ADAPTER.ERROR No Comments.
JOURNAL

Application data modeled at build time.

Used in compensation and recovery by Adapter service.

Navigation Manager writes a copy of Adapter activity Journal container for purposes of compensation and recovery.

4MB ADAPTER.JOURNAL During compensation, the DPL Stub program (DFHMADPL) writes a copy of this container to a process container for use in the compensating sequence flow.

See How CICS Service Flow Runtime programs use data-containers for a list of the programs that use (read, write or read and write) these miscellaneous data-containers.