CREGPRB view

CREGPRB scans the CICS control blocks and MainView for CICS control blocks to determine the status of active tasks and CICS resources. Based on this information, MainView for CICS

• Generates FT* messages (FT041 - FT537) for conditions that exceed user-defined thresholds in the problem threshold table (CMRPRBT)

  These FT* messages are not sent to the journal log. For information about customizing the problem threshold table, see Setting-problem-thresholds-CMRPRBT. 

• Reports on errors found by non-@PRBn active monitors

  These messages are marked with the monitor name in the Mon Name field of CREGPRB.

To display information about outstanding problems in active CICS regions, perform one of the following actions:

• Use one of the Problem Type hyperlinks on the CREGDETL view.

• Issue the following command:

  CREGPRB [target][level]

  where target is the specific or generic name of a target CICS region, and level is the severity of the messages to be displayed, as one of the following:

The following figure is displayed:

Usage notes

• To see the name of the MainView for CICS monitor that issued a particular message, scroll the CREGPRB view to the right.
• In some cases when the Message Text hyperlink is used, the resource name is extracted from the message and used as a parameter for the view to be displayed by the hyperlink.
• The CREGPRB view provides a good starting point for examining a CICS system that is not processing as it should. For each detected problem, the display provides a message number whose suffix is a severity level; a description of the condition; and the current value. Messages for each severity level are displayed in different colors. The following table lists the default message characteristics.