The following categories of problem (in order of ascending impact on the user) may be encountered by the CICS® log manager:
If either of these conditions occur, CICS issues message DFHLG0771 (for a general log) or DFHLG0777 (for a system log). The CICS log manager retries the request every three seconds until the request is satisfied. Typically, this can take up to a minute.
If a return code implies damage to a forward recovery log or autojournal, all files using the log stream are quiesced and their transactions run to completion. Message DFHFC4800, DFHFC4801, or DFHFC4802 is issued. User transactions writing journal records to the log stream experience a write error. For a forward recovery log, before you can continue to use the log stream, you must:
For an autojournal, before you can continue to use the log stream, you must: