Use the CEBR transaction to browse temporary storage queues and to delete them.
You can also use CEBR to transfer a transient data queue to temporary storage in order to look at its contents, and to recreate the transient data queue when you have finished. The CEBR commands that perform these transfers allow you to create and delete transient data queues as well.
Remember that:
This is can lead to confusion if for example an EXEC CICS READQ NEXT and a CEBR transaction attempt to work with the same Temporary Storage queue at the same time.
You start the CEBR transaction by entering the transaction identifier CEBR, followed by the name of the queue you want to browse. For example, to display the temporary storage queue named CEBRS209, you enter:
CEBR CEBRS209
If the queue name includes lower case characters, ensure that upper case translation is suppressed for the terminal you are using, and then enter the correct combination of upper and lower case characters.
CICS responds with a display of the queue, a sample of which is shown in Figure 25:
CEBR TSQ AXBYQUEUENAME1 SYSID CIJP REC 1 OF 3 COL 1 OF 5 ENTER COMMAND ===> ************************** TOP OF QUEUE ******************************* 00001 HELLO 00002 HELLO 00003 HELLO ************************* BOTTOM OF QUEUE ***************************** PF1 : HELP PF2 : SWITCH HEX/CHAR PF3 : TERMINATE BROWSE PF4 : VIEW TOP PF5 : VIEW BOTTOM PF6 : REPEAT LAST FIND PF7 : SCROLL BACK HALF PF8 : SCROLL FORWARD HALF PF9 : UNDEFINED PF10: SCROLL BACK FULL PF11: SCROLL FORWARD FULL PF12: UNDEFINED
Alternatively, you can start the CEBR transaction from CEDF. You do this by pressing PF5 from the initial CEDF screen (see Figure 47) which takes you to the working-storage screen, and then you press PF2 from that screen to browse temporary storage (that is, you invoke CEBR). CEBR responds by displaying the temporary storage queue whose name consists of the four letters ‘CEBR’ followed by the four letters of your terminal identifier. (CICS uses this same default queue name if you invoke CEBR directly and do not supply a queue name.) The result of invoking CEBR without a queue name or from an EDF session at terminal S21A is shown in Figure 26.
If you enter CEBR from CEDF, you will return to the EDF panel when you press PF3 from the CEBR screen.
CEBR TSQ AXBYQUEUEAME1 SYSID CIJP REC 1 OF 0 COL 1 OF 1 0 ENTER COMMAND ===> 2 ************************** TOP OF QUEUE ******************************* * ************************* BOTTOM OF QUEUE ***************************** 3 TSQUEUE AXBYQUEUEAME1 DOES NOT EXIST 4 PF1 : HELP PF2 : SWITCH HEX/CHAR PF3 : TERMINATE BROWSE 5 PF4 : VIEW TOP PF5 : VIEW BOTTOM PF6 : REPEAT LAST FIND PF7 : SCROLL BACK HALF PF8 : SCROLL FORWARD HALF PF9 : UNDEFINED PF10: SCROLL BACK FULL PF11: SCROLL FORWARD FULL PF12: UNDEFINED
For information about the CEBR temporary storage browse transaction and guidance on using it, see the CICS® Application Programming Guide.