See the

CICS Front End Programming Interface User’s Guide

for more information
about FEPI journaling.
Structure and content of COMPAT41-format journal records
SMF records
The following description does not apply to journal records written to an SMF
data set. These are described on page 653.
CICS allows you to format journal records so that they are presented in the format
used at CICS/ESA 4.1. Use the COMPAT41option on the SUBSYS=(LOGR...) step
of your JCL.
Within the data presented, certain fields are not presented at CICS Transaction
Server for OS/390. They appear as X'00' in the formatted output. These fields are:
Table31. Fields formatted as X'00'
JCLRJFID
JCLRVCD
JCLRVSN
JCLRLBW
JCLRTBAL
JCRBB
JCSPFS
JCSPDSP
JCSPEMER
JCSPMIDT
JCSPRRIF
Each general log comprises a stream of contiguous blocks of journaled data. Each
block comprises a journal control label header followed by a variable number of
CICS journal records. Each CICS journal record comprises a system header,
system prefix, user prefix, and journaled data.
Fixed length
4
81 88
2
111
Module identifier
UP SVMID
Module function
UP MODFN
UPFEPDF
UPFEPES
Reserved
Escape character
for keystroke
Pool name
UP FEPPL
Reserved
Targ et nam e
UPFEPTG
Conversation identifier
UPFEPCV
Data function
Figure 70. Format of the FEPI prefix area
journaling
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