This topic contains information about the reports produced by CICS® VR
PRINT.
For each block to be printed, the report consists of:
- The block header record
- Detail for each record in the block, with information about specific fields
in the record. This detail includes record type, file information and key
type, where it can be determined.
- The entire record in hex format.
- A summary record.
Note: If the record type is not recognized, only the hex dump is printed.
Record types
Where the record type is recognized,
two parts are provided for the description. If the first part is one of:
- CICS autojournalled
redo record
- CICS forward
recovery redo record
- CICS VR
forward recovery redo record
then the second part of the description can be one of:
- file close record
- read only
- read update record
- tie up record
- write add record
- write add complete
- write delete record
- write update record
If the first part of the record type description is:
- CICS VR
batch backout undo record
then the second part of the description can be one of:
- End of job step
- Get-for-Update/Erase
- Put Add
- Start of job step
An example of a record type description is: CICS forward
recovery redo record, write add complete.
File information
File information such as the file
ID, filename and filetype is provided in the report if the information is
present in the record or if the information can be extracted from an earlier
tieup record.
Key line
The key line value can be KEY, XRBA, RBA
or RRN. Subsequent information is displayed in the same format as the record
with a hex dump and then character data.