CICS Socket Interface - Tips and Techniques - Miscellaneous


We've run across several maintenance issues associated with IBM TCP/IP for MVS and the CICS Socket Interface feature. Most problems were already addressed in existing maintenance or were fixed fairly quickly by the IBM TCP/IP support staff.

Some of the maintenance that was important to us includes:

APAR Identifier ...... PQ19078      Last Changed ........ 98/12/24
ABEND23E DURING TERMINATION OF THE CICS SOCKETS INTERFACE

APAR Identifier ...... PQ18907      Last Changed ........ 98/12/22
ABEND0C4 AT X'6E' INTO EZACIC08 AFTER GETHOSTBYNAME

APAR Identifier ...... PQ15630      Last Changed ........ 98/07/02
EZACIC20 DOES NOT INITIALIZE P20RET FIELD ON A SECOND LINK OF THE
EZACIC20 MODULE FROM THE SAME PROGRAM

APAR Identifier ...... PQ15249      Last Changed ........ 98/07/02
ABEND 0C4 IN MODULE EZACIC02

APAR Identifier ...... PQ14558      Last Changed ........ 98/07/02
CICS LISTENER PASSES INVALID COMMAREA LENGTH TO SECURITY EXIT

APAR Identifier ...... PQ13852      Last Changed ........ 99/06/23
POSSIBLE CICS OVERLAYS BECAUSE EZACIC03 USES RESIDUAL ERRNO AND
RETCODE ADDRESS FOR THE TERMAPI CALL

APAR Identifier ...... PQ12970      Last Changed ........ 98/04/02
THE CICS LISTENER HANGS AFTER MESSAGE EZY1307E IS ISSUED.

APAR Identifier ...... PQ11516      Last Changed ........ 98/03/01
SOCKET TRANSACTIONS ARE WAITING IN EZACIC01 FOR A RESPONSE
FROM THE EZACIC03 SUBTASK AND CAN NOT BE FORCE PURGED IN CICS

APAR Identifier ...... PQ11464      Last Changed ........ 98/02/03
THE CICS LISTENER TRIES TO READ 52 BYTES OF DATA WHICH CAN CAUSE
PROBLEMS WITH THE CLIENT TRANSACTION.

APAR Identifier ...... PQ10755      Last Changed ........ 98/01/02
CICS TASK HANGS AFTER PASSING BAD PARM LIST ON A CLOSE CALL.
ABEND0C4 IN EZASOH03.  ABEND23E ON 'EZAO STOP' COMMAND.

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Last updated on August 4, 1999, by Steve Ware, <mailto:sfw@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu>.

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