Browsing messages

At various locations throughout the CICS® VR panel interface, CICS VR writes messages to the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname when the specific error conditions are detected.

When the error messages are initially written to the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname, CICS VR performs an ISPF VIEW of the recently written messages. You can view all messages that have been written to the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname during the entire session of the CICS VR panel interface by selecting option six, Browse messages, from the "CICS VR main menu".

Figure 1. Main menu panel
Help                                                                         
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                               CICSVR main menu                                
                                                                               
Select one and press Enter.                                                    
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                     6_  1.  List of VSAM spheres                              
                         2.  List of log streams                               
                         3.  List of registered log of logs                    
                         4.  Automatic deregister criteria                     
                         5.  JCL skeleton                                      
                         6.  Browse messages                                  
                         7.  List of CICS Backout Failed spheres               
                         8.  CICSVR Settings                                   
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
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Command ===> ________________________________________________________________  
 F1=Help      F3=Exit     F10=Menu bar F12=Cancel                                

After selecting option six, Browse messages, from the "CICS VR main menu", an ISPF BROWSE of the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname occurs:

Figure 2. BROWSE of DWWMSG data set
   Menu  Utilities  Compilers  Help                                             
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 BROWSE    CICSVR.PANELS.DWWMSG                       Line 00000000 Col 001 080 
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CICSVR - CICS VSAM RECOVERY                                           DATE : 03/
                                                                                
DWW1101I The archive utility is started at 03/06/03 15:05:28.                   
                                                                                
DWW1241I No blocks were read for the log of logs CICSVR.CICSVR.DFHLGLOG.        
                                                                                
DWW1102I The archive utility is terminated. The maximum condition code is 0.    
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Command ===> ________________________________________________ Scroll ===> PAGE 
  F1=Help    F2=Split   F3=Exit    F5=Rfind   F7=Up      F8=Down    F9=Swap     
 F10=Left   F11=Right  F12=Cancel                                               

Press F7, Up, and F8, Down, to scroll through the messages.

Press F3, Exit, or F12, Cancel, to exit the BROWSE and return to the CICS VR main menu.


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Timestamp icon Last updated: Friday, 7 February 2014


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