Control

Click this to save changes you have made to the page and refresh the page. This button is displayed only if you have the required permissions.

SEPS: Shows the number of concurrent service execution processes currently supported by this server. You can change the number by entering a value in the field.
Force Phase In, Yes: Check this to have MSS reload programs each time they are invoked. This applies only to programs that are not marked resident and have not been loaded with the hold attribute.
Admin: The number of Admin SEPs defined
Initial Tran: The transaction to run when a TN3270 session connects to the server.
HTTP Out: Shows the size of the data blocks passed across shared memory for HTTP output. You can change the HTTP size by entering a value in the HTTP Size field.

ID: Shows the time in minutes that the system will allow an ESMAC or TN3270 client session to remain idle before logging off the user. At system startup, this is initialized to the value specified in the System Initialization Table. A value of 0 indicates that there is no timeout. Please note that if you change the value, the change will not be saved at system shutdown.
Runaway: Shows the maximum continuous period of time in seconds that the region will allow a transaction to run without making a CICS, EZASOKET or MQSeries API call. When this value is exceeded, the transaction is abended. At system startup, this is initialized to the value specified in the System Initialization Table. A value of 0 indicates that there is no timeout. Please note that if you change the value, the change will not be saved at system shutdown. Note also that you can override this value for an individual transaction through the relevant Program Control Table entry.
Input: Shows the maximum time in seconds allowed for operator response to an explicit CICS RECEIVE command before the transaction is abended. At system startup, this is initialized to the value specified in the System Initialization Table. A value of 0 indicates that there is no timeout. Please note that if you change the value, the change will not be saved at system shutdown. Note also that you can override this value for an individual transaction through the relevant Program Control Table entry.
Deadlock: Shows the maximum time in seconds that the region will permit an application to wait for a resource that has been locked by another process. At system startup, this is initialized to the value specified in the System Initialization Table. A value of 0 indicates that there is no timeout. Please note that if you change the value, the change will not be saved at system shutdown. Note also that you can override this value for an individual transaction through the relevant Program Control Table entry.

Size

Shows the maximum size of the auxiliary trace and dump file in kilobytes. A value of 0 (zero) means that there is no maximum size. You can change the size by entering a value, in kilobytes, in the Diagnostic Size field. The maximum size you can enter in this field is 999999 kilobytes.

Dump

Shows the current data set used for dump information.

Switch: Click this to switch between the A and B data sets that are used to store dump information.
Dump: Click this to initiate a dump. Dump information is stored in the data set identified by Active Dump DS. If you do not initiate a dump using Dump, dumps occur when the system and/or transaction abends, or if the program executes the EXEC CICS DUMP command. A dump will occur on an abend only if Sys and/or Tran is checked in the Dump on Abend group.
Countn: Shows the number of dumps (n) that have occurred.

Trace

Shows the current data set used for trace information.

Switch: Click this to switch between A and B data sets used to store trace information.
Aux, active: If checked, the in-memory trace data is transferred to the auxiliary (diagnostic) data set at the roll-over of the system trace table.
Blocks: Shows the number of blocks of trace information captured.

Dump on ABEND

Sys: Check this to indicate that MSS should produce a dump if an abend occurs in its own code.
Tran: Check this to indicate that MSS should produce a dump if an abend occurs in any of your transaction programs. If you check this field, then you can control whether or not a dump is produced for an individual program by checking or unchecking Dump on abend on the PCT properties dialog box. If you leave this field unchecked, MSS ignores the setting of Dump on abend on the PCT properties dialog box.
Debugger: Check this to enable dynamic debugging.

Enable collection of HSF records

This switches on HSF processing.

Write to disk

Enables writing of HSF records to comma-separated files. These are called cashsf-a.csv and cashsf-b.csv, and are written to the system directory. Only one file is written to at any one time - this is called the active file.

You write to the active file until you click the ESMAC Switch button or when the active file reaches the maximum size, at which point the alternate file becomes active. If the alternate file already exists it will be backed up with the name cashsf.nnn where nnn is the number of the backup. When you start an enterprise server, cashsf-a.csv is always set as the active file, and if it already exists it is backed up.

Backup extensions are numbered from .001 up to .999. When a backup with extension .999 exists then the next backup will be created as cashsf.001. If cashsf.001 already exists then it will be overwritten.

Max HSF file size

If you have selected Write to disk, this is the size in kilobytes the .csv file will reach before Enterprise Server switches to the alternate .csv file. A value 0 selects the maximum size possible (4 Gb).

Number of records to view in ESMAC

The number of HSF records that Enterprise Server will hold in memory. These records can be viewed by clicking on the HSF button in ESMAC while the server is running. When this number is reached, older records will be deleted when a new one is created. Records older than one hour are deleted too.

The minimum value is 0 (no HSF data displays in ESMAC), the maximum is 4096.

Clicking the Switch button will switch collection to the alternate .csv file before the active file has reached the maximum size.

Shows the currently set trace points. The trace points shown are those that have been set by the SIT. You can change individual trace points by checking the check box next to each trace point, or you can use all to change all the settings at once. This overrides the trace points set by the SIT. Any changes you make are effective immediately you click Apply. The changes are lost, however, the next time the server is initialized.

all

Choose a setting to apply to all the trace points:

On - enables all the trace points
Off - disables all the trace points

Attention: When you set all the trace points on at once, the trace points CCI, fh and fh-enable are unaffected. This is because these trace points should be used only when advised by Micro Focus.

Server

dmp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its dump control component.
lock-data: Check this to trace lock management for non-threaded processes.
scp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its storage control component.
tsc: Check this to trace calls to the castsc process.
exits: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace the user exits.
msg: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its messages component.
sql-api: Not used.
tsc-data: Check this to trace the data in calls to the castsc process.
fh: Do not check this unless advised by Micro Focus.
reqh: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its request handler component.
tmp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its table management component.
tsc-thread: Check this to trace thread processing and lock management in the castsc process.
fh-enable: Do not check this unless advised by Micro Focus.
rm: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its resource manager component.
trd: Check this to trace thread processing in all threaded processes.
xfp: Check this to trace data in transformer processing.
jcp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its journal control component.
rts: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its run-time system (application container) component.
trd-enq: Check this to trace processes and data in transformer processing.
xfp-all: Check this to trace data and processes in transformer processing.
tcp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its terminal control component.
saf(security): Check this trace System Authorization Facility (SAF) calls.
trd-stg: Check this to trace memory management in threaded processes.
xfp-data: Check this to trace data in transformer processing for threaded processes.

JCL/JES

common: Not used.
hsf: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace the creation of Historical Statistics Facility (HSF) records for JCL.

CICS

api: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace the CICS API calls.
icp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its interval control component.
ts-td: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its temporary storage/transient data (TS/TD) component.
fcp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its file control component.
kcp: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace its task control component.
user: Check this to enable a user trace.

IMS

api: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace IMS DL/I API entry points.
dbc: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace IMS DB control processing.
i/o: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace IMS physical/virtual file I/O.
sys: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace miscellaneous IMS processing.
cli: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace IMS MPR, JES and SEP processing.
ES-DB: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace ES IMS DB processing.
stg: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace IMS dynamic memory allocation/freeing.
TM-ctl: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace IMS TM control processing.
data: Not used.
ES-stg: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace ES IMS memory management.
DB-thread: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace lock management for IMS DB.
TM-thread: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace lock management for IMS TM.
TM-buffer: Check this to indicate that MSS is to trace the buffer for IMS TM lock management.

Communications

cci: Do not check this unless advised by Micro Focus.
data: Check this to trace basic data in the communication module and IMS TM.
mfcs-cg: Check this to trace Micro Focus Communications Server (MFCS) requests
common: Check this to trace thread processing in the communications module.
data-all: Check this to trace extended data in communication module and IMS TM.
cg-thread: Check this to trace lock management in the communications module.

Use this to control the frequency and type of runtime memory validation, as well as specifying the processes to which these settings apply.

Start: Starts a debug SEP. A value of "Any" indicates that any transaction can be debugged in this SEP.
Transaction: Indicates the only transaction to be debugged in this SEP.
If terminals are connected, the additional option Terminal enables you to debug only those transactions initiated from the selected terminal.

Click this to shut down the current server. You restart the server using Enterprise Server Administration.

Dump: A system dump is taken when the server shuts down.
Immediate: Check this to force an immediate shutdown when you click Shutdown. If you force an immediate shutdown, you will see "The page cannot be displayed" error, as there is no longer a server to connect to.