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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Change Tracker
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 11, 2026

Error message CYG843E corrupting of data would be great to have the message shown in our syslog so we could trap and take action immediately rather than taking the abend at recycle.

We have had two type of corruption of change tracker data. First time was the repo index, easy to recover from. The second time was corruption to the repo data file. The error message posted in the output of Change Tracker a snap dump was taken but wasn't caught 5 days later on the recycle of the STC . The message on the syslog we could have automation trap it, shut down change tracker and contact support team to take action.

Idea priority Low