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In this report, one line is printed for every exception record written by the CICS® Monitoring Facility (CMF). Selected data within the exception record is displayed on this line. The reported information allows you to find the corresponding records in the Performance List report.
Figure 1. Exception List report
 V5R3M0                                                  CICS Performance Analyzer
                                                               Exception List
 
XLST0001 Printed at 12:34:56 02/15/2015     Data from 08:08:37  2/16/2010                         APPLID                           
 
                               Tran     Service  Report           Exp ..... Time ..... Current  Resource                  Exception
Tran Term LUName   Userid   SC Class    Class    Class     Taskno Seq Start    Elapsed Program    Type   Resource ID      Type
 
ABRW P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TP                                834   1 08:08:37  10.189 DFHSABRW FILE     FILEA            STRING
ABRW S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TP                                835   1 08:08:47   7.245 DFHSABRW FILE     FILEA            STRING
ABRW S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TP                                837   1 08:08:52   2.996 DFHSABRW FILE     FILEA            STRING
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   1 08:12:10    .005 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   2 08:12:10    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   3 08:12:10    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   1 08:12:10    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   2 08:12:10    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   3 08:12:10    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   4 08:12:10    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   5 08:12:10    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   6 08:12:10    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   7 08:12:10    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   8 08:12:10    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149   9 08:12:10    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  10 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  11 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  12 08:12:11    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  13 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  14 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  15 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  16 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  17 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI P045 IG2ZP045 CBAKER   TO                               1149  18 08:12:11    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR LONGTSNAME       BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   4 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   5 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   6 08:12:11    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   7 08:12:11    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   8 08:12:11    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151   9 08:12:11    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  10 08:12:11    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  11 08:12:11    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  12 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  13 08:12:12    .003 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  14 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   1 08:12:12    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  15 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   2 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  16 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   3 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  17 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   4 08:12:12    .004 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S220 IGCS220  BRENNER  TO                               1151  18 08:12:12    .005 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR CACA             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   5 08:12:12    .006 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   6 08:12:12    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   7 08:12:12    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   8 08:12:12    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150   9 08:12:12    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150  10 08:12:12    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER
CECI S205 IGCS205  BRENNER  TO                               1150  11 08:12:12    .002 DFHECID  TEMPSTOR FRED             BUFFER

The first few columns in this report contain similar information as reported in the Performance List report to identify the exception transaction. The remaining columns provide additional information about the actual exception.

For detailed information on the exception class data fields shown in the Exception List report, see the CICS Performance Guide.

The following columns are the same as the Performance List report:

Tran
The Transaction ID (field: TRAN, owner: DFHTASK, field ID: 001) identifies the name of the transaction that this performance class record represents. Applications that are using Distributed Program Link (DPL) requests should use the TRANSID('xxxx') parameter on the EXEC CICS LINK PROGRAM('xxxxxxxx') command to enable better transaction/application analysis from the monitoring performance class data. If the TRANSID('xxxx') parameter is not specified all the performance class records on the target system for a Distributed Program Link (DPL) mirror transaction will have the same transaction ID. For example, 'CSMI' for a Distributed Program Link (DPL) request from another connected CICS system.
Term
The Terminal ID (field: TERM, owner: DFHTERM, field ID: 002) is either the terminal ID or the session ID. This field is blank if the transaction was not associated with a terminal or session facility.
LUName
The LUname (field: LUNAME, owner: DFHTERM, field ID: 111) is either the VTAM® netname of the terminal ID (if the Access Method for the terminal is VTAM) or the VTAM APPLID of the connection for the session ID. For an EXCI connection, this field is blank. The transaction's terminal or session type can be identified from the NATURE field (byte 0) within the terminal information field (field: TERMINFO, owner: DFHTERM, field ID: 165). This field is blank if the transaction was not associated with a terminal or session facility.
Userid
The User identifier of the transaction (owner: DFHCICS, field ID: 089).
SC
The transaction start type (field: STYPE, owner: DFHTASK, field ID: 004).
Tran Class
The transaction class for this transaction (owner: DFHTASK, field ID: 166). If the transaction is not in a transaction class then this field is blank.
Service Class
The MVS™ Workload Manager (WLM) service class (owner: DFHCICS, field ID: 167) for the transaction (CICS Transaction Server Version 1.1 or later only).
Report Class
The MVS Workload Manager (WLM) report class (owner: DFHCICS, field ID: 168) for the transaction (CICS Transaction Server Version 1.1 or later only).
Taskno
The transaction identification number (owner: DFHTASK, field ID: 031).
Exp Seq
The sequence number of this exception within the transaction.
Start
The Start time of the exception condition.
Elapsed
The Elapsed time of the exception condition.

The following columns provide additional information about the exception:

Resource Type
The exception resource type.
Resource ID
The exception resource ID.
Exception Type
The exception type.

Table 1 shows the exception types and the corresponding resource type and resource ID values along with a brief description of the exception condition.

Table 1. Exception types
Exception Type Resource Type Resource ID Meaning
WAIT CFDTLRSW CFDTPOOL name Wait for CF (coupling facility) data table locking request slot
WAIT CFDTPOOL CFDTPOOL name Wait for CF (coupling facility) data table non-locking request slot
WAIT STORAGE CDSA Wait for CDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE ECDSA Wait for ECDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE UDSA Wait for UDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE EUDSA Wait for EUDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE SDSA Wait for SDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE ESDSA Wait for ESDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE RDSA Wait for RDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE ERDSA Wait for ERDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE GCDSA Wait for GCDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE GUDSA Wait for GUDSA storage
WAIT STORAGE GSDSA Wait for GSDSA storage
WAIT TEMPSTOR TS Qname Wait for temporary storage
STRING FILE file name Wait for VSAM string associated with a file
STRING LSRPOOL LSRPOOL name Wait for VSAM string associated with an LSRPOOL
STRING TEMPSTOR TS Qname Wait for VSAM string associated with DFHTEMP
BUFFER LSRPOOL LSRPOOL name Wait for VSAM buffer associated with an LSRPOOL
BUFFER TEMPSTOR TS Qname Wait for VSAM buffer associated with DFHTEMP
POLICY DATABASE rule_id  1  A database request policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY FILE rule_id  1  A file request policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY PROGRAM rule_id  1  A program request policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY START rule_id  1  A start request policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY STORAGE rule_id  1  A storage or storage request policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY SYNCPT rule_id  1  A syncpoint request policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY TDQUEUE rule_id  1  A TD Queue request policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY TIME rule_id  1  A time policy rule has been exceeded
POLICY TSQUEUE rule_id  1  A TS Queue bytes or TS Queue request policy rule has been exceeded
Note:
 1  'rule_id'
The name of a rule_id is a concatenation of the bundle_id, policy name, and rule name: <bundle id>.<policy name>.<rule name>.
EXCMNRID contains the first 8 characters of the rule_id, and the full name is in EXCMNRIX.

To obtain the number of exception records written for each transaction, look at the Count component of the exception wait time (field: EXWTTIME, owner: DFHCICS, field ID: 103) on the Performance List report or Performance List Extended report. Note that this field is not in the default reports. You'll need to request the EXWAIT field in a Report Form or FIELDS operand.