IBM CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 SC33-1686-02 - Manual (Page 37)

CEBR—temporary storage browse
Chapter 6. CEBR—temporary storage browse
Use the CEBR transaction to browse temporary storage
queues and to delete them.
You can also use CEBR to transfer a transient data queue to
temporary storage in order to look at its contents, and to
recreate the transient data queue when you have finished.
The CEBR commands that perform these transfers allow you
to create and delete transient data queues as well.
| Remember that:
| browsing of Temporary Storage queues retrieves the
| next record, following whichever record has most
| recently been retrieved by ANY active task.
| This is can lead to confusion if for example an EXEC
| CICS READQ NEXT and a CEBR transaction attempt to
| work with the same Temporary Storage queue at the
| same time.
| transient data queue reads are destructive. If you read a
| transient data queue that is being used on an active
| system by applications, this is likely to cause problems.
You start the CEBR transaction by entering the transaction
identifier CEBR, followed by the name of the queue you want
to browse. For example, to display the temporary storage
queue named CEBRS209, you enter:
CEBR CEBRS2 9
CICS responds with a display of the queue, a sample of
which is shown in Figure 13:
CEBR TSQ AXBYQUEUENAME1 SYSID CIJP REC 1 OF 3 COL 1 OF 5
ENTER COMMAND ===>
ᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍ TOP OF QUEUE ᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍ
1 HELLO
2 HELLO
3 HELLO
ᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍ BOTTOM OF QUEUE ᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍᑍ
PF1 : HELP PF2 : SWITCH HEX/CHAR PF3 : TERMINATE BROWSE
PF4 : VIEW TOP PF5 : VIEW BOTTOM PF6 : REPEAT LAST FIND
PF7 : SCROLL BACK HALF PF8 : SCROLL FORWARD HALF PF9 : UNDEFINED
PF1 : SCROLL BACK FULL PF11: SCROLL FORWARD FULL PF12: UNDEFINED
Figure 13. Typical CEBR screen displaying temporary storage
queue contents
Alternatively, you can start the CEBR transaction from CEDF.
You do this by pressing PF5 from the initial CEDF screen
(see Figure 35 on page 41) which takes you to the
working-storage screen, and then you press PF2 from that
screen to browse temporary storage (that is, you invoke
CEBR). CEBR responds by displaying the temporary storage
queue whose name consists of the four letters ‘CEBR’
followed by the four letters of your terminal identifier. (CICS
uses this same default queue name if you invoke CEBR
directly and do not supply a queue name.) The result of
invoking CEBR without a queue name or from an EDF
session at terminal S21A is shown in Figure 14.
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