PK17446: CICS SERVICE FLOW FEATURE DFHMAINJ JOB FAILS IN DFHMAINR EXEC WITH -3 COMMAND PIPE NOT FOUND.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The job output will contain
  %DFHMAINR
  CICS SFR SCIZSAMP customization beginning
  COMMAND PIPE NOT FOUND
       5 *-* 'pipe (stagesep ;)  ' ,' < ddname=IN ;   ',' stem
  memin. ; '
         +++ RC(-3) +++
      24 +++  do i = 1 to memin.0
  Error running DFHMAINR, line 24: Bad arithmetic conversion
  
  The problem is the PIPE command is part of a non-standard
  software package.    This APAR is being taken to make a
  change to allow the installation / customization exec
  DFHMAINR (called by DFHMAINJ) to execute with the standard
  level of REXX runtime available on z/OS, without the need for
  the PIPE command.
  
  Additional Symptoms: If you have the PIPE command available, it
  may fail in DFHMAINR with the following due to an invalid
  character in the PIPE CHANGE command:
  PIPCHA066E Unacceptable number //
  PIPSCA003I ... Issued from stage 2 of pipeline 1
  PIPSCA001I ... Running "change  job2   //         NOTIFY=
  &SYSUID,MSGCLASS="
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: This PTF provides cumulative service    *
  *                      for a number of CICS Service Flow       *
  *                      Runtime modules.                        *
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  The CICS Service Flow Runtime post-install job, DFHMAINR, may
  not run successfully on some systems. In addition, other
  post-install jobs have redundant JCL statements which need to
  be removed, or have parameters which need to be standardised.
  

Problem conclusion

• DFHMAINR has been amended so that it no longer uses the PIPE
  command from the BatchPipeWorks component. This is because it
  cannot be guaranteed that all users of CICS SFR will have the
  BatchPipeWorks component installed.
  DFHMAID2, DFHMAINJ, DFHMAMMQ and DFHMAXRD have all been amended
  either to remove redundant JCL statements or to standardise
  parameter names.
  

Temporary fix

• *********
  * HIPER *
  *********
  

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UK11294

Modules/Macros

•    DFHMAID2 DFHMAINJ DFHMAINR DFHMAMMQ DFHMAXRD
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SERVICE FLOW FE

• Fixed component ID

  5655M1502

Applicable component levels

• R200 PSY UK11294

     UP06/02/02 P F602

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