You could also not have enough sessions define from your TOR CICS region to 
your AOR CICS region this will cause your transaction to wait for a session. 
This is sometimes what you what to do rather than to clog up the AOR with tasks 
that will not run do to deadlock situations. 

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Thomas

Your advice is very useful for me, thanks a lot.


At 2011-02-28 21:04:15,"Thomas Dunlap" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Eric,
>
>ZCIOWAIT indicates VTAM terminal control wait.  My first guess is that 
>you are function shipping to another CICS region using VTAM connections 
>between the regions and you are looking at the front-end transaction.  
>In this case this is a normal situation.  As for optimizing, it is 
>really dependent upon the function the back-end region.  Improve the 
>task in the back-end region and you will shorten the wait in the front-end.
>
>-- 
>
>Regards,
>Thomas Dunlap    Chief Technology Officer    [email protected]
>Themis,  Inc.    http://www.themisinc.com    1 (800) 756-3000
>
>
>On 2/28/2011 5:52 AM, Eric JL wrote:
>> When I run a CICS trans, it is use for DB2 select update, found it spend a 
>> lot
>> of time on ZCIOWAIT. Is this a problem? How can I optimize it.
>>
>> The trans dump
>> DATE TIME   JOBNAME  TRANID TASK# TERMID RESP CPU  PAGING  ILEIO
>> 02/24 00:00:01 CICSA     TR68  85748        111.097   0.2186       0     727
>> 02/24 00:00:02 CICSA     TR68  87201         0.0346   0.0074       0      17
>> 02/24 00:00:29 CICSA     TR68  87583         1.1215   0.1548       0     473
>> 02/24 00:00:51 CICSA     TR68  85748        50.6486   0.3856       0   1,162
>>
>>
>> TR68 #85748
>>
>> RES TYPE  RES NAME       WT CNT  WT TIME   % OF RESPONSE
>> CHANGE    PRIOPRITY       60          0.0086        0.00
>> SWITCH    TCB                1,454      0.03320      0.29
>> WAIT       W/O ID            3           0.0039         0.00
>> WAIT FOR  REDSPTCH      1,578      0.3363         0.30
>> ZCIOWAIT                      63         1:50.1226     99.12
>> 1ST          DISPATCH       1           0.0001         0.00
>>
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