Maintaining CICS PA data sets
The CICS PA data sets are partitioned data sets and carry product sensitive information in the directory. You can use DFSMSdss utilities and data set utility IEBCOPY for maintenance purposes.
Members in these data sets are saved in a special format. Members
must not be created or modified using facilities other
than CICS PA as
this can cause them to become unusable by CICS PA. Should this
occur, a message similar to this one is displayed by panels that use the member:
Only Report Set members in the data set are included in the list.
Some members have been excluded.
Ensure that you specified the correct data set name. If correct,
you can use ISPF to determine the offending member or members. For
example, use ISPF option 3.1 to display the list of members in the
Report Sets data set. Members created by CICS PA will
display with no modification details, whereas those edited using ISPF
will show their modification details. To correct the situation, either:
- Use ISPF to remove (move or delete) the offending members from the data set.
- Use CICS PA facilities. When the Report Sets panel is displayed, enter SELECT in the command line and specify the name of the offending member. If the contents of the member are valid Report Set details, they will display on the EDIT Report Set panel. Save the Report Set and the member will appear in the list of Report Sets in the specified sort order. If it is not a valid Report Set, an error message is displayed.