Intertest CICS debugging in MRO environment fails with message VIRC004-IN50ERROR in the AOR region.

Products

• InterTest - CICS

Issue/Introduction

When debugging a program with Intertest CICS in an MRO environment, the debugging session fails and the following message is written to the AOR CICS log:

VIRC004-IN50ERROR: A REMOTE VTAT TRAN NOT DEFINED IN TOR=AC10 FOR AOR= 

The MRO environment configuration is TOR region SYSID=AC10 and one AOR region SYSID=AC14.

Environment

Z/OS

CICS

Cause

The client did not define the remote VTAT transaction which is required for every AOR region that is attached to the TOR region.  In this case only one remote VTAT entry was required for AOR region AC14. 

Resolution

The remote VTAT entry VTA1 was defined in the TOR region SYSID=AC10 for AOR region SYSID=AC14. All users must have security access to this transaction in order to debug.

DEFINE TRANSACTION(VTA1) GROUP(YOUR GROUP)                                
  DESCRIPTION(INTERTEST TOR REMOTE VTAT FOR AC14)                    
  TWASIZE(0) PROFILE(DFHCICST) STATUS(ENABLED) TASKDATALOC(BELOW)      
  TASKDATAKEY(USER) STORAGECLEAR(NO) RUNAWAY(SYSTEM)                    
  SHUTDOWN(DISABLED) ISOLATE(YES) DYNAMIC(NO) ROUTABLE(NO)              
  REMOTESYSTEM(AC14) REMOTENAME(VTAT) TRPROF(DFHCICSS) LOCALQ(NO)      
  PRIORITY(1) TRANCLASS(DFHTCL00) DTIMOUT(NO) RESTART(NO)              
  SPURGE(NO) TPURGE(NO) DUMP(YES) TRACE(YES) CONFDATA(NO)              
  OTSTIMEOUT(NO) ACTION(BACKOUT) WAIT(YES) WAITTIME(0,0,0)              
  RESSEC(NO) CMDSEC(NO)

 

For additional information please review Special Considerations for MRO Support.