CONNECTS - ISC/MRO connections summary

The CONNECTS view shows summarized information about ISC and MRO connections. CONNECTS is a summary form of the CONNECT view.

Availability

The CONNECTS view is available for all managed CICS® systems.

Access

Issue command:
CONNECTS [connection] [netname]

Where the parameters are the same as those for CONNECT (see CONNECT - ISC/MRO connections).

Select:
CONNECT from the OPERATE menu, and CONNECTS from the CONNECT submenu.
Summarize:
Issue the SUM display command from a CONNECT or CONNECTS view.

The CONNECTS view looks like the CONNECT view shown in Figure 3 with one addition: the Count field. This field appears next to the CICS System field, and indicates how many resources were combined to form each line of summary data.

By default, the view is summarized by CICS system. If you place the cursor on a field of data and issue the SUM display command, the view is summarized by the data in that field.

Action commands

Table 16 shows the action commands you can issue from the CONNECTS view. These action commands affect all of the resources that were combined to form the summary line of data. The overtype fields are shown in Table 17.

The action commands and overtype fields for the CONNECTS view are available for all managed CICS systems for which CONNECTS is valid, except as noted in Table 16.

Table 16. CONNECTS view action commands
Primary command Line command Description
n/a ACQ Acquires a connection (APPC only).
n/a CAN Cancels automatic initiation descriptor (AID) queuing for a connection.
n/a DSC Discards a connection from the CICS system where it is installed. The connection must be out of service before it can be discarded.
n/a EAF Ends a connection's affinity with a VTAM generic resource group. The connection must be out of service and, for APPC, in NORECOVDATA state. (APPC and LU6.1 connections only.)
n/a FCN Cancels all automatic initiation descriptor (AID) queuing, including system AID queuing, for a connection.
n/a FOR Forces transactions associated with a connection to be immediately purged (VTAM® only).
n/a IN Places a connection in service.
n/a NOR Forces all in-doubt units of work, forgets any outstanding resynchs, and erases the logname previously received from the partner system. This overrides the resynchronization process. (APPC connections only.)
n/a NTP Forces all in-doubt units of work and forgets any outstanding resynchs created before the initial (or cold) start of the partner system. This overrides the resynchronization process. (APPC and CICS MRO connections only.)
n/a OUT Takes a connection out of service.
n/a PUR Purges normally the transactions associated with a connection (VTAM only). CICS terminates the transactions associated with this connection only if system and data integrity can be maintained.
Note:
A transaction is not purged if its definition specifies SPURGE=NO.
n/a REL Releases a connection (APPC only).
n/a SET Sets a connection attribute according to the new value you specify in an overtype field (see Table 17).
Note:
The value you specified in the Require Set field on the CICSPlex® System Manager entry panel determines whether or not you must use the SET command when you overtype a field.
n/a UOW Displays the Shunted UOWs for Failed Connection input panel (Figure 4), which lets you specify whether a unit of work shunted because of the failure of this connection should be backed out, committed, forced, or resynchronized.

Table 17. CONNECTS view overtype fields
Field name Values
Connect Status ACQUIRED | RELEASED (APPC only)
Service Status INSERVICE | OUTSERVICE

Hyperlinks

From the CONNECTS view, you can hyperlink from the Count field to the CONNECT view to expand a line of summary data. The CONNECT view includes only those resources that were combined to form the specified summary line.

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