Navigating task records


After a detail view is displayed, transaction navigation hyperlinks enable you to display detail information about other records without first having to return to the tabular view.

The transaction navigation hyperlinks are hyperlinks you can use to move through the detail view set for a task. The following list describes the links and what the links display:

  • QM: displays the quick menu
  • NF: displays the next detail view
  • PF: displays the previous detail view
  • NS: next suspend time detail
  • PS: previous suspend time detail

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The following figure describes how the transaction navigation hyperlinks work by starting with a typical CTASK view like the one below. For information about the CTASK view, see CTASK-view

For this example the environment context was set to ALL and the view was accessed by entering CTASK on the COMMAND line. When CTASK is entered by itself there is no selection criteria to apply, and the time frame is the current BMC AMI Ops TIME duration.

ddmmmyyy 12:53:48 ------ BMC AMI Ops WINDOW INTERFACE (V.rr.mm) ---------------
COMMAND  ===>                                                 SCROLL ===> CSR
CURR WIN ===> 1        ALT WIN ===>
>W1 =CTASK============(ALL======*=======)ddmmmyyy ==12:53:48====MVCICS===D==201
CMD Task  Target   S Tran Elapsed  Tc  CPU   Suspend  Suspend     File   DSA
---  ID            t  ID    Time   Mo  Time    Type    Time       Waits  Size
       42 BCVCD670 S CKAM 110:18:0 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  5936
      107 BCVCD670 S JNL2 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0 12704
      110 BCVCD670 S BCRT 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  2672
     1813 BCVCD680 S JNL2 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0 12736
     1816 BCVCD680 S BCRT 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  2752
       29 BCVCD690 S CONL 110:18:0 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  127K
       50 BCVCD690 S CKAM 110:17:5 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  6016
       69 BCVCD690 S COI0 110:17:4 QR   0.00 USERWAIT 110:17:44.6      0 19904
       72 BCVCD690 S COIE 110:17:4 QR  21.33 USERWAIT 00:00:06.88      0 71952
     1644 BCVCD690 S JNL2 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0 12736
     1647 BCVCD690 S BCRT 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  2752
       29 BCVCD700 S CONL 110:18:0 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  128K
       50 BCVCD700 S CKAM 110:17:5 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  6544
       69 BCVCD700 S COI0 110:17:4 QR   0.00 USERWAIT 110:17:43.5      0 20432
       72 BCVCD700 S COIE 110:17:4 QR  21.45 USERWAIT 00:00:06.88      0 72800
     1634 BCVCD700 S JNL2 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0 12736
     1637 BCVCD700 S BCRT 03:45:18 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  3280
       51 BCVCD710 S CKAM 03:47:31 QR   0.00          00:00:00.00      0  7248

The suspend time detail view–CTASKDS–was displayed by hyperlinking on the Suspend Time field. In this instance, task number 42 was used. CTASKDS displays detailed information about a CICS tasks suspend time. 

Notice the transaction navigation hyperlinks QM, NF, and PF at left in the following figure.

ddmmmyyy 13:02:03 ------ BMC AMI Ops WINDOW INTERFACE (V.rr.mm) ---------------
COMMAND  ===>                                                 SCROLL ===> CSR  
CURR WIN ===> 1        ALT WIN ===>                                            
>W1 =CTASK====CTASKDS=(ALL======BCVCD670)ddmmmyyy ==12:59:24====MVCICS===D====1
     Target................   BCVCD670                                         
     Task Number...........         42              NOTE: Suspend components ma
     Transaction ID........       CKAM                    overlap.  The overlap
  QM                                                      can cause the total o
  NF Start Date (Local)....  03MAR2017                    all the percentages t
  PF Start Time (Local).... 22:35:45.6                    be greater than 100%.
                                                                              
     Task Elapsed Time.....     397.4K                                         
     Total Suspend Time....    0.00000                                         
                                                        Component Portion of   
     Suspend Component.....     Time    Count   %        Total Suspend Time    
     ----------------------  ---------  -----  ---  0<----------50---------->10
     Dispatch..............    0.00000      0    0                             
     Communications........    0.00000      0    0                             
     File..................    0.00000      0    0                             
     RMI...................                                                    
      DB2..................    0.00000      0    0                             
      IMS..................    0.00000      0    0                             
      Other RMI............    0.00000      0    0                             
     Asynchronous API......                                                    

By using the transaction navigation hyperlinks you can display detailed information about the transaction without first having to return to the CTASK view. Transaction navigation hyperlinks are found on most task views.

Hyperlink on NF (next to Start Date) to display the CTASKDST view for task 42. The CTASKDST view view displays detailed information about a CICS task's use of Storage Control (see the figure below).

If you hyperlink on PF (next to Start TIme), the CTASKDE view showing information about about the task's elapsed time is displayed.

ddmmmyyyy  hh:mm:ss ------ BMC AMI Ops WINDOW INTERFACE (Vv.r.mm) --------------
COMMAND  ===>                                                 SCROLL ===> CSR  
CURR WIN ===> 1        ALT WIN ===>                                            
 W1 =CTASK====CTASKDST(ALL======BCVCD670)ddmmmyyyy==12:59:24====MVCICS===D====1
     Target................    BCVCD670                                        
     Task Number...........          42                                        
     Transaction ID........        CKAM                                        
  QM                                                                           
  NF Start Date (Local)....   03MAR2017                                        
  PF Start Time (Local)....  22:35:45.6                                        
                                                                              
     Shared Storage........   DSA Name    Reqs   GETMAIN    FREEMAIN           
                            -----------  ------  --------  ---------           
                              CDSA/SDSA       0         0          0           
                            ECDSA/ESDSA       0         0          0           
                            GCDSA/GSDSA     N/A       N/A        N/A           
                                                                              
     User Storage..........   DSA Name    Reqs      HWM    Occupancy           
                            -----------  ------  --------  ---------           
                                   CDSA       0         0          0           
                                   UDSA       0         0          0           
                                  ECDSA       0         0          0           
                                  EUDSA       0         0          0           
                                  GCDSA     N/A       N/A        N/A           

As you can see, the transaction navigation hyperlinks enable you to move back and forth through the record set. 

When using the transaction navigation hyperlinks to display detail records, only records with the same target are displayed. If instead of a context of ALL the context was a specific CICS region, records would be displayed in the same order as the tasks are listed in the CTASK view.

Note

If you use the Back–PF3– key to leave a detail view after using the transaction navigation arrows, you are returned to the tabular view location where you started, not to where you last navigated.


 

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