IBM TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.2 PTF APAR README

IBM(R) TXSeries(TM) CICS 5.0.0.2 PTF APAR README for AIX(R), Windows(R), HP-UX (R) and Solaris(R) Systems

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About this document

The TXSeries Program Temporary Fix (PTF) is a collection of cumulative product patches and recent software fixes. For TXSeries, separate PTFs exist for CICS and Encina(R). Installing this PTF updates TXSeries to version 5.0.0.2. This README file lists the defects fixed in the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.2 PTF for the AIX, Windows, HP-UX and Solaris operating systems. This README also provides some important notes about TXSeries on the AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows systems.

Note: For information about obtaining and installing the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.2, see the READPTF_.htm file for the PTF.


Table of contents

Important notes

Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.2 PTF

Contents of previous PTF releases

Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF


Important notes

The following are important notes about TXSeries CICS 5.0 on the AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows systems.


Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.2  PTF

This section lists the APARs fixed in this PTF.
APAR # Abstract
IY31878 Inquire Connection in TOR for APPC returns wrong values
IY33219 CICSTERM fails when SafetyLevel is set to normal
IY34265 Listener Process Name is wrong (bin.cics)
IY34812 Log corrupt when CICS fails unexpectedly
IY35491 INQUIRE TSQ resets the TSQ Read Index
IY35880 Log record corruption on CICS shutdown
IY35981 PL/I programs does not work when migrated from TX 4.2 to TX 5.0
IY37032 (Windows Systems) TSConfig - Online help for DefaultUserId needs to be updated
IY37060 Keyboard locked due to the FREEKB bit in the WCC being set off
due to the EBCDIC ASCII conversion in CICSTELD
IY37371 Running CICSMIGRATE with -M flag for multiple regions fail
IY38002 ERZ046357E/0572 could not access values during cicsmigrate
IY38006 External trace attribute not found during cicsmigrate
IY38317 Symrecs getting generated after region shutdown
IY38349 (AIX Systems) TXSeries 5.0 AIX use of CICS_SFS_SIZE variable
IY38840 PGMIDERR even if the program runs OK
IY39511 (Windows Systems) CICSLU process terminates unexpectedly (unhandled exception)
IY39514 (Windows Systems) TXSeries V5.0 Windows Locale
IY39573 CSMT getting filled up with ERZ027016E messages
IY39577 (AIX Systems) Change cicsteld process to spawning with Exec
IY39578 (AIX Systems) Change cicsmkcobol to use cob instead of ld in CICS 5.0
IY39580 (AIX or HP-UX Systems) Cicsas hangs because of fopen in our signal handler
IY39583 Cicsas leaks memory for each terminal install through RPC
IY39584 CICSDDT ftod fails when encountering a hex 1A
IY39585 CICS initialization not detecting invalid RegionPoolBase of 0
IY39586 CPU time for trans are being accumulated, resulting in AICA
IY39590 Ftos fails to process the data stream containing 0x1A character
IY39591 (Windows Systems) CMF Improvements in Windows
IY39592 (AIX Systems) CICS ppcgateway server is unable to start using smitty
IY39593 (Solaris or HP-UX Systems) Unable to restart all services using "cicscp -v start all"
IY39594 Cobol:cics freemain DataPointer(Address of A1) leads abend A47B
IY39599 Trace system double deallocation leads to various errors

Contents of previous PTF releases

This section lists the APARs fixed in the previous TXSeries CICS PTF release:

Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF

Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF

The TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF is for AIX and Windows platforms only, to synchronize with the GA levels of TXSeries CICS 5.0 on HP-UX and Solaris platforms. Applying this PTF upgrades from 5.0.0.0 to 5.0.0.1 on AIX and Windows platforms.

This is a cumulative update for the CICS functions of the GA TXSeries 5.0 product for the AIX and Windows platforms and contains the following:

Also included in this PTF are the following CICS 5.0 defects:
APAR Number Abstract
IY09951 SMIT panel for CICS is corrupted.
IY33194 DATA-CONTEXT and DATA-RECOVERY in ServerExpress to be supported
IY34123 Dumping of Empty Ring Buffer is happening when trace is off
IY34124 Internal error when PD has bad path
IY34125 XA transactions abend with A583 after a normal COBOL transaction is run
IY34130 CADB DISPLAY error on Server Express
IY34170 CICS region may not start due to deadlock between CICSLM main and listener threads
IY34887 PROG798 occurred at DBCS Field because SO (0X0F) is incorrectly inserted without SI (0X0E)

For more details about the defects that went into this PTF, please see the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF Readme, which is available on the "TXSeries CICS Version 5.0 PTF 1 (AIX - NT) Download Page" of the TXSeries Support Web site: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=175&context=SSAL2T&uid=swg24001889.