Last CICS 3270 Screen Buffer
Selecting the Last CICS 3270 Screen Buffer
link displays the last 3270 screen buffer written by CICS, as in the example
shown in Figure 1.
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Last CICS 3270 Screen Buffer Line 1 Col 1 80
Command ===> ________________________________________________ Scroll ===> CSR
Normal Hex - TRANID: SK00 CICS ABEND: ASRA CICS02 2019/06/07 11:10:32
Column
Row ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+
1 sk00*** CICB0CB0 - START OF PROGRAM........................................
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All non-printable characters are shown as periods (.).
It is not always possible for Fault Analyzer to provide CICS 3270 screen buffer
information. For example, if there are indications of VTAM® session errors on the
terminal, or if one of the following CICS® abends have occurred (* indicates a
wildcard character), then no 3270 screen buffer information is provided:
- AEXZ
- AKC3
- AKCT
- AKK*
- ATC*
- ATN*
- AZCT
- AZI*
- AZTS
Two point-and-shoot fields are provided under the panel title to toggle the state of
the display:
- Normal displays only the EBCDIC characters of the last screen buffer.
- Hex also displays the hex values of each character below each
row:
Figure 2. Sample Last CICS 3270 Screen Buffer Hex display File View Services Help ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Last CICS 3270 Screen Buffer Hex Line 1 Col 1 80 Command ===> ________________________________________________ Scroll ===> CSR Normal Hex - TRANID: SK00 CICS ABEND: ASRA CICS02 2019/06/07 11:10:56 Column Row ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7--- 1 CSCB0010 ABOUT TO ABEND AEIL ........................................... CECCFFFF4CCDEE4ED4CCCDC4CCCD440000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 3232001001264303601255401593000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 2 ......................................................................... 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 3 ......................................................................... 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 4 ......................................................................... 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 F1=Help F3=Exit F5=RptFind F6=Actions F7=Up F8=Down F10=Left F11=Right
When the CICS 3270 screen buffer is available, it is displayed to all users by
default. You can restrict its display to users who have READ access or higher to an XFACILIT profile
named IDI_FEATURE_DISPLAY_CICS_3270BUFFER. For example, the following RACF commands restrict the
3270 screen buffer display to members of group
DEV1:
RDEFINE XFACILIT IDI_FEATURE_DISPLAY_CICS_3270BUFFER UACC(NONE)
PERMIT IDI_FEATURE_DISPLAY_CICS_3270BUFFER CLASS(XFACILIT) ID(DEV1) ACCESS(READ)Note: The
contents of the CICS 3270 screen buffer are visible if a user views a fault entry outside of Fault Analyzer (for example, using ISPF BROWSE). To control
this level of access, define the history file data-set-profile access as UACC(NONE), and define an
XFACILIT profile that grants access to the history files. See Using the XFACILIT resource class for history file fault entries.