ZCIOWAIT

Suspends on resource type ZCIOWAIT occur when the task is waiting for some terminal I/O. Once the expected I/O event occurs, the task is resumed.

If the task is waiting on resource type ZCIOWAIT, the current MVS workload manager monitoring environment is set to either:

  • STATE=IDLE for a conversational task, or DTP transaction, that is awaiting input from its principal facility.

  • STATE=WAITING,RESOURCE=CONV for a task awaiting input from its alternate facility. Look at the RMF workload activity report to see whether the task continued beyond the current MVS monitoring environment. The SWITCHED column in this report can contain the following values:

  • LOCALMVS - the communicating CICS region is on the same local MVS image.

  • SYSPLEX - the communicating CICS region is on another MVS image in the same sysplex.

  • NETWORK - the communicating CICS region is in the VTAM network, which may, or may not be, in the same MVS image.