Way to know file status of a file if CICS is down?

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Shaurbh Sharma
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Way to know file status of a file if CICS is down?

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To investigate a probem, I have to see if a given file is defined or not in a CICS region. But the region is not available and is down. Now is there a way that I can know if the file is defined to the region or not??
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Re: Way to know file status of a file if CICS is down?

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please use Your neurons ...
if CICS is down why would somebody care about the status of a file ?
Now is there a way that I can know if the file is defined to the region or not??
did Your support ever hear of DFHCSDUP
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Thanks enrico. I have read about DFHCSDUP but it does not talk about the status anywhere?
if CICS is down why would somebody care about the status of a file ?
Ideally the file should have been closed but we got a file open error when we tested it, so we wanted to know it.
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I have to see if a given file is defined or not in a CICS region
the output of the DFHCSDUP run will tell the CICS regions where the file is used
we got a file open error when we tested it, so we wanted to know it.
open error where ???
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Re: Way to know file status of a file if CICS is down?

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Ideally the file should have been closed but we got a file open error when we tested it, so we wanted to know it.
I think you need to clarify just what you are talking about. If the CICS region is done, you could NOT get a file open error for that file in that region -- since you cannot access CICS when the region is down. If you got a file open error somewhere else, you need to explain where (another CICS region? batch?) and why you believe in such a case that the CICS region being up or down would make any difference.
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Re: Way to know file status of a file if CICS is down?

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Our CICS region is shared between QA1 and test. Can that be a reason that QA1 is down while test is up and the file is in use with the same name in both the regions?
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Re: Way to know file status of a file if CICS is down?

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Are the regions using MRO? Is there a FOR region? I suggest you're going to get better answers by contacting your site support group as they will know your site configuration better than anyone on this forum.
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