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IDA9990I message after upgrading to z/OS 2.2 when accessing files from CICS

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Question

Why am I getting this IDA9990I message after upgrading z/OS 2.2 when accessing files from CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS)?

 IDA9990I VSAM DBA ADDED 149 INDEX BUFFERS OF 8192 BYTES EACH TO  403

I have had an old LSRPOOL definition that has not been modified in a long time. I tried removing the old LSRPOOL definition from the CMAS GROUPLIST and it resulted in the following warning message:

 +DFHFC0208I LSR pool 1 is being built dynamically by CICS because all of the
  necessary parameters have not been supplied. Either there is no
  LSRPOOL definition or it is incomplete. The following are not
  defined:  'CI SIZE' 'STRINGS' 'MAXKEYLENGTH'. A delay is possible.

Answer

The new IDA9990I message from VSAM at z/OS 2.2 is an informational message and does not necessarily need to be acted upon as stated in the Documentation in the following 2 sections:

Like the CICS DFHFC0208I message, the information does not always need to be acted upon.

APAR PI75316 was opened in order to update the documentation in the section entitled Defining VSAM buffer allocations to LSR under CICS VSAM and file control: Performance and tuning > VSAM specifications for LSR.

The reason for the update to this section is to relay that in z/OS 2.2 there is a VSAM dynamic buffer addition enhancement that will add buffers if no buffer is available for a given VSAM request. If this does occur then informational message IDA9990I will provided information in regards to number and size of buffers that could be used to alter the value of the BUFFERS parameter.

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Product Synonym

CICS/TS CICSTS CICS TS CICS Transaction Server

Document Information

Modified date:
06 June 2017

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