IBM TXSeries CICS 6.1.0.3 PTF APAR README


IBM TXSeries CICS 6.1.0.3 PTF APAR README for AIX, Windows, HP-UX on PA-RISC, HP-UX on HP Integrity and Solaris Systems.

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About this document

The TXSeries(R) Program Temporary Fix (PTF) is a collection of cumulative product patches and recent software fixes. Installing this PTF updates the TXSeries CICS to version 6.1.0.3. This README file lists the APARs that have been fixed in the TXSeries CICS 6.1.0.3 PTF, and gives important notes for all supported platforms.

Note: For information about TXSeries CICS PTF install procedures and prerequisites, refer to READPTF_lang.htm file that is included in the PTF download.

Table of contents

Important Notes

Obtaining the TXSeries CICS PTF

Contents of  TXSeries 6.1.0.3 PTF

Contents of  TXSeries 6.1.0.2 PTF

Contents of  TXSeries 6.1.0.1 PTF

Important Notes

The following are important notes about TXSeries 6.1.0.3 on all supported platforms.

Obtaining the TXSeries CICS PTF

Download the PTF from the TXSeries Support download Web page. Follow the instructions that are given on the Web site, and download the PTF. Then, follow the installation procedures that are given in the READPTF_<lang>.htm file provided along with the PTF download.

Contents of the TXSeries CICS 6.1.0.3 PTF

APAR Number

Abstract

IZ04619 CICSTRAN IS MISPLACING PERIOD IN COBOL PROGRAMS AFTER TRANSLATION
IZ06858 DAMFS_INITIALISEFILEBYNAME GIVES A SEGV DURING REGION STARTUP
IZ07426 REGION POOL LEAKS DURING FORCEPURGE, REMOTE REGION DOWN AND CORE DUMP SCENARIOS
IZ08839 CICS ADMIN CONSOLE DOES NOT ALLOW FOR MORE THAN ONE STARTUP PROGRAM BUT SHOULD ALLOW 10
IZ08894 APPLICATION SERVER ID LEAK WHEN THE PROCESS TERMINATES ABNORMALLY
IZ09044 MAX TCLASS VALUE NOT REFRESHED IN THE CST9 SCREEN WHEN MODIFIED USING CEMT
IZ09664 ERROR MESSAGE WHEN TRYING TO CREATE DB2 AS FILE MANAGER WITH -U OPTION.
IZ09865 CICSAS ABNORMALLY TERMINATES DURING A STRCPY.
IZ10782 WEB ADMIN DOESN'T DISPLAY THE USER ADDED XML TAGS ON CONSOLE LOG FILE.
IZ10865 FILE LOCKS HELD BY CICSGC PROCESS AND NOT RELEASED
IZ12231 GARBAGE COLLECTION PROCESS CICSGC TERMINATES AFTER LOGOFF
IZ13886 CICSTELD GETTING AN EXCEPTION WHEN WE CLOSE 3270 EMULATOR ISSUE
IZ14033 CREATE .IBMCOB FILE PRODUCED BY RD FOR Z FOR PROGRAMS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN CICS STATEMANTS.
IZ14043 ERRORS PROCESSING COBOL SOURCE WITH RD FOR Z.
IZ14721 U5655 ABEND DUE THE CICSAS PROCESS TERMINATION WITH CONTROL MUTEX
IZ16615 HMON OF WLM RECORDS INCORRECT NODE STATUS.
IZ19320 ENABLE TABLESPACE OPTION WITH CICSDB2CONF COMMAND.
IZ20452 CICSGC PROCESS IS NOT TERMINATING AFTER DEFAULT TIMEOUT.
IZ21964 CORRUPTION IN STANDARD ERROR STREAM OF CICSNP LISTENER PROCESS
IZ22271 THE WEB ADMINISTRATION GUI DOES NOT SHOW THE CONSOLE FILES FOR THE REGIONS.
IZ25416 TRANSACTIONS HUNG WAITING FOR ENQ LOCK DUE TO NUMEROUS FORCEPURGES IN THE REGION
IZ26021 SHOWPROCINFO HANGS WHEN CALLED FROM COBOL EXIT HANDLER REGISTERED WITH CICS
IZ28789 REGION HANG DUE TO CONSOLE/SYMREC MUTEX LOCK.
IZ29124 COMPILING MAP FILE USING -E OPTION FAILS WITH UNSUCCESSFUL MEMORY ALLOCATION WHEN MAP FILE HAS XINIT=''.
IZ31848 TO DISABLE CICS SIGNAL HANDLER FOR SIGNAL 6 (SIGABRT)
IZ31946 CICS TASK LOOPS AND CICSAS USES 100% CPU WHEN CMF MONITORING IS ENABLED ON CICS REGION.
IZ32211 NUMBER OF CICSAS CROSSED MORE THAN THE MAXSERVER, SOMETIMES ON A WARM START OF A CICS REGION.
IZ32428 U5655 ABEND CAUSED BY CICSAS PROCESS TERMINATION DUE TO INCORRECT TRANSACTION STATE.
IZ32433 RETRY LOGIC IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE DCE RPC ENDPOINT REGISTRATION FAILURES
IZ32440 U4802 ABEND CAUSED WHEN THE PROGRAM CACHE IS CORRUPT
IZ32453 U5701 WHILE ESTABLISHING CONVERSATION WITH REMOTE TXSERIES REGION
IZ32556 U5701 ABEND DUE TO UNSYNCHRONISED CLEAN-UP OF PROGRAM STRUCTURES
IZ32996 REGION DOWN WITH U5701 - UNABLE TO DELETE TSQ AS ITS ALREADY IN USE.
IZ33021 TDQ BECOMES UNUSABLE AFTER ABNORMAL TERMINATION OF TDQ READER
IZ33024 CHAT ABENDS WITH A11A ABEND CODE DUE TO CICSTELD COMING UP WITH SAME RPC HANDLE.
IZ33031 INCORRECT STARTCODE RETURNED AFTER GETTING ERZ007011E ERROR MESSAGE.
IZ33035 RELEASING COMMAREA POINTER TWICE CAUSED A JAVA PROGRAM HANG.
IZ33122 INCONSISTANT COLD START PROCESS WHEN A COLD START IS FORCED
IZ33127 SEGV IN CICSIC, CICSLD, CICSRL DURING REGION SHUTDOWN ON SOLARIS PLATFORM.
IZ33128 AVOID LOOPING INSIDE SIGNAL HANDLER WHILE TAKING FUNCTION STACK
IZ33143 REGION CRASH DURING CLEANUP OF CEDF DATA OF REMOTE TRANSACTION
IZ33344 PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF RPC_UNSUPPORTED_* ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES IN TX SERIES 6.X
IZ33345 REGION ABENDS WITH U4801 DUE TO MEMORY CORRUPTION
IZ33445 INVALID -S OPTION WITH CICSSFSCREATE
IZ33607 CICSGC DOES NOT TERMINATE BECAUSE CIPC TCA IS NOT CLEANED UP.
IZ36652 CICSDDT FAILS TO LOAD RECORDS FROM A FLAT FILE WHEN THE FILE CONTAINS ONLY RECORDS
IZ04578 LOW PERFORMANCE WHILE DUMPING FILE FROM SFS SERVER TO DISK USING CICSSDT.
IZ36767 ABEND AA47 WHEN EXECUTING THE CDCN TRANSACTION THROUGH AN CICS UNIVERSAL CLIENT EPI PROGRAM.
IZ36736 REGION DOWN WITH U5701 ABEND DUE TO UNEXPECTED STATE 5(READONLY) DURING RECOVERY.
IZ36765 CICS REGION PROCESS HANG DUE TO MULTIPLE CONSOLE MUTEX LOCK ATTEMPTS WITHIN SAME CICSAS
IZ09732 WIN32 API ERROR IN SETSERVICESTATUS ERROR 6 WHEN SHUTTING DOWN THE REGION OR SFS
IZ09951 SARPC MEMORY ALLOCATE ERROR WHEN SHUTTING DOWN SFS SERVER
IZ33120 SARPCD TEMINATES ON RECEIVING SIGDANGER
IZ33215 CORRUPTED ODM ENTRIES IN LSLPP OUTPUT.
IZ18170 FAILURE IN CONNECTING TO ORACLE 11G DATABASE USING EXTFH PROGRAMS
IZ36766 CICSTELD PROCESS DOES NOT TERMINATE
IZ22192 CICSLTERM HUNG AFTER CESF TRANSACTION

Contents of the TXSeries CICS 6.1.0.2 PTF

APAR Number

Abstract

IY98253 U4419 ABEND IN RECEIVE THREAD OF CICSIP PROCESS
IY99718 U5655 ABAEND AFTER AN APPLICATION SERVER ENDS UNEXPECTEDLY
IZ03495 VALIDATE USER FAILS FOR ADMIN CONSOLE WHEN USERID IS COMBINED WITH A DOMAIN NAME ON WINDOWS
IZ03012 USER SPECIFIYING SFS_PERMITTED_RIGHTS AUTHORITY IN OFD SPECIFICATION RESULTS IN THE ERROR INSUFFICIENT AUTHORITY
IZ04130 TASK SHARED POOL SUMMARY FIELDS SHOWING NEGATIVE VALUES WHEN STATFILE IS FORMATTED
IZ04208 A158 ABEND OCCURS ON HP SYSTEMS WITH CICS TRACE RUNNING
IZ04211 SEGMENTATION FAULT DURING ERROR LOGGING IN JA_JP LOCALE

Contents of the TXSeries CICS 6.1.0.1 PTF

APAR Number

Abstract

IY78066 CMF FIELDS 96(EXEC-CICS) AND 216(CICS-CPU) ARE NOT RESET CORRECTLY.
IY83734 BDE_MUTEXLOCK FAILS DURING FORCEPURGE ON HP-UX SYSTEMS.
IY84897 'PROGRAM FULL PATH NAME'' FIELD IN ALL DUMP OUTPUT IS EMPTY.'
IY85726 LVM_NOMIRRCOPIES ENTRIES IN ERRPT AFTER MIGRATING FROM AIX V5.2 TO V5.3.
IY86598 THE CICSNP PROCESS GETS AN ILLEGAL EXCEPTION WHILE TRYING TO CONNECT USING CTG.
IY89969 PERFORMING AN INQUIRE OF A NON-EXISTENT TS QUEUE RETURNS A NORMAL RESPONSE RATHER THAN QIDERR WHEN THE EI TRACE IS ON.
IY90319 ABEND U4419 IN PROCESS CICSIP AS A RESULT OF A EXC_E_ILLADDR.
IY90359 EXTFH BROWSE OPERATION DOES NOT WORK ON SECONDARY INDEX WITH ALL OPERATORS.
IY90479 CICSTRAN COMMAND CANNOT TRANSLATE CODE WITH KOREA CHARACTORS WHEN LOCALE IS SET TO KO_KR.
IY90517 APPLICATION SERVER HANG WHEN MF COBOL APPLICATION RECEIVES SIGNAL.
IY91050 'CICSSDT TAKES A LONG TIME TO DISPLAY THE RECORDING METER, WHEN UPLOADING A FILE TO THE SFS SERVER'.
IY91826 ABEND U3466 AFTER CICSAS PROCESS ENDS UNEXPECTEDLY.
IY92099 REGION POOL MEMORY LEAK IN TXSeries CICS REGION USING XA COMPLIANT DATABASE AS FILE MANAGER OR RESOURCE MANAGER.
IY92451 AVOID FOREVER LOOPING WHILE DUMPING ENCINA DUMPING ENCINA STRUCTURE.
IY92635 SERVER FAILS TO START WHILE USING SMITTY ON AIX PLATFORM.
IY92876 CICS CANNOT DETECT THAT THE TERMINAL IS NOT ACTIVE AFTER NETWORK FAILURE.
IY93287 C++ PROGRAM COMPILED WITH -AA OPTION ABENDS ON HP PLATFORM.
IY93300 PROCESS HANGS IN CIPC_MUTEXLOCK BECAUSE THE MUTEX ADDRESS IS NOT WORD ALIGNED.
IY93301 CICSIC(CLIENT PROCESS) HANGS IN CIPC_CONNECT BECAUSE CICSTELD(SERVER) HAS GONE AWAY.
IY93688 IMPROPER TERMINAL UNINSTALLATION WHEN TASK IS TERMINATED ABRUPTLY.
IY94180 TSQ CREATED BY CICS START IS NOT DELETED WHEN TRAN ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY.
IY94784 PTHREAD_MUTEX_LOCK ERROR.
IY95412 RTS 200 ERROR AFTER USING COBOL NEWCOPY.
IY95577 DUPLICATE TSQ RECORD IN CICS DATABASE.
IY95676 U1601 ABEND OCCURS WHEN TRANSACTION HAS ALREADY BEEN ABORTED.
IY95686 IMPROPER CLEAN-UP OF RPC COMMUNICATION STRUCTURE DURING FORCEPURGE.
IY96163 EXEC CICS SET UNABLE TO SET STRING TYPE ATTRIBUTES.
IY96649 U3466 CAUSE REGION ABEND.
IY97649 CICSSDT UNABLE TO LOAD A FLAT FILE GREATER THAN SIZE 32K, WHICH DUMPED WITH ASIS OPTION.
IY97901 AVOID AEIQ ABEND WHEN TRYING TO CREATE A TSQ WHICH ALREADY EXISTS.
IY97926 IMPROPER HANDLING OF MULTIBYTE CHARACTER STREAM.
IY97954 REMOVED DEPENDENCY ON SOFT LINK OF DB2 LIBRARY.
IY97979 REGION SHUTDOWN HANGS IF TRACEBUFFER IS SET TO ON.
IY99753 WEB ADMIN CONSOLE DOES NOT SHOW SOME STANZA ENTRIES WHEN THE LWI SERVER STARTED IN MULTI-BYTE LOCALE.