IBM TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.2 PTF APAR README

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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 Encina 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 Encina 5.0 PTF2, see the READPTF_Lang.htm file for the PTF.

Table of contents

Important notes

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.2 PTF

Contents of previous PTF releases

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 PTF

Important notes

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

1. Starting with TXSeries 5.0 PTF1 (5.0.0.1), the default version of enconsole on AIX has been changed from the Java-based version as shipped in 5.0.0.0 to a non-Java implementation similar to the enconsole that shipped in TXSeries 4.3. This change was made to address potential stability problems related to the interaction of DCE and Java on AIX.  The non-Java Enconsole lacks two new features in 5.0.0.0:  (1) support for defining, viewing, and updating routing tables and (2) National Language support.  Users wishing to employ routing tables can use enccp for this purpose.  The Java implementation is still supported. Users can make use of the Java implementation by invoking the jenconsole script located in /usr/lpp/encina/bin. In case of stability problems encountered during usage, we advise users to revert to the default.


2. TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 is incompatible with the Tivoli Instrumentation module shipped with Encina. Due to changes in the implementation of Encina, the Tivoli module does not work if this TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 PTF is installed. If your site depends on the correct operation of the TXSeries Tivoli Instrumentation you should not install this PTF and should contact your customer support representative for further information. The changes in Encina do not affect any scripts that you may have written to allow Tivoli monitoring of TXSeries processes; the incompatibility only affects the Instrumentation module included with the product.

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.2 PTF

This section lists the APARs fixed in this PTF.

APAR Number	Abstract
IY37413	Stability and performance problems in Enconsole
IY42151	Overlap of check box in wintidl GUI
IY42154	Java JVM dumping core for poor interactions between Java JVM signal handlers and Encina signal handlers
IY42155	Problems with build on wintidl GUI for having long path names in the options
IY42146	Resource timed out problem in wintidl GUI while starting the GUI after ending abruptly
IY38354	Dead lock problem while deleting records from very large SFS btree-clustered files
IY37784	Unauthenticated clients not getting binding handles even when the servers were set for no authorization.
IY21899	Memory leaks in DPL programming model.
IY18449	Application abort while using FLT model in PPC gateway
IY30109	Enconsole unstability on AIX 5.1
IY42157	Memory leaks in Encina++ servers using OTS factory model.
IY42158	TIDL compiler not accepting user defined exceptions in TACF
IY42159	PPC Gateway fails with Enc- PPC 1032 due to TID mismatch
IY38268	Client not refreshing the binding handles after RPC exceptions due to server crashing
IY34863	Getting  ENC-bde-0040 Invalid group in server.out when the groupname list is larger than buffer size.
IY39195	Memory leaks in DDT component in SFS

Contents of previous PTF releases

This section provides information about how you can find the APARs fixed in the previous TXSeries 5.0 PTF releases:

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 PTF

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 PTF

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

This is a full refresh of the GA product and contains all the TXSeries Encina 4.2 and 4.3 APARs processed since the TXSeries 5.0 release on AIX and Windows systems

For more details about the defects that went into this PTF, please see the TXSeries 5.0.0.1 PTF Readme, which is available on the "TXSeries Encina 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=swg24003552.

There have been many modifications done with respect to the Encina Enconsole/Jenconsole facility. For more details please refer to the TXSeries support flashes on the Web at the following site: http://www.ibm.com/software/ts/txseries/support