Sending the DADS Plus for CICS DADS01 control file to technical support

Products

• DADS Plus

Issue/Introduction

Sometimes an end user will encounter a problem using DADS Plus for CICS and the problem cannot be reproduced here at Broadcom. In these cases, technical support may request the client's DADS01 control file to attempt recreation of the reported problem.

Resolution

The DADS01 control file is a VSAM KSDS variable length file RECSZ(0180 8185). In order to send the DADS01 file to Broadcom, please do the following steps.

• Create a sequential file FM=VB LRECL=8185 BLKSIZE=8189.
• IDCAMS REPRO the VSAM DADS01 file to the sequential file just created.
• Use the IBM TRSMAIN utility to terse the sequential file.
• Note how many records were repro'd to the sequential file.
• Upload the tersed sequential file to Broadcom's FTP server and update the support case with the number of records repro'd to the sequential file.