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PM36191: CICS RACF CHANGES NOTIFICATION FEATURE (RACF ENF) IS NOT WORKING FROM ONE LPAR TO ANOTHER LPAR.

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APAR status

  • Closed as program error.

Error description

  • We are migrating to CTS version 4.1 on Z/OS 1.11 and wish to use
    the new RACF changes notification feature (RACF ENF). We are
    starting a transaction on a CICS which starts another
    transaction with the USERID parameter. When the second
    transaction starts on the same CICS or a CICS on the same LPAR
    it is aware if RACF changes but when the second transaction is
    shipped to a CICS on a different LPAR it gets the old RACF
    profile.
    Upon checking the parameters of the ENF macro, it seems that
    CICS does not listen to sysplex wide ENFs (as mentioned in
    parameter XSYS).
    Is there a way for CICS to listen on other LPARs ENFs?
    

Local fix

Problem summary

  • ****************************************************************
    * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users.                              *
    ****************************************************************
    * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: CICS fails to receive RACF type 71      *
    *                      event notifications which are issued    *
    *                      from another system in the sysplex.     *
    ****************************************************************
    * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
    ****************************************************************
    A CICS application does an EXEC CICS START specifying the
    USERID parameter. On another LPAR a RACF change is made to the
    userid specified in the command, but CICS is not aware of this
    change. The old RACF profile for this userid continues to be
    used unless the USRDELAY SIT parameter comes into effect,
    resulting in a full signon the next time the userid is used.
    During startup DFHDMSVC uses the ENFREQ macro to listen for
    RACF ENF notifications but the macro does not specify the
    XSYS parameter so its value defaults to NO. This means that
    only signals from the local system are received by CICS.
    

Problem conclusion

  • DFHDMDM has been updated to add a parameter when calling
    DFHDMSVC to indicate that RACF notification should be
    sysplex wide.
    DFHDMSVC has been updated to add the XSYS parameter to
    the ENFREQ call, and to set the parameter to YES when
    this is requested by DFHDMDM.
    

Temporary fix

  • FIX AVAILABLE BY PTF ONLY
    

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APAR Information

  • APAR number

    PM36191

  • Reported component name

    CICS TS Z/OS V4

  • Reported component ID

    5655S9700

  • Reported release

    600

  • Status

    CLOSED PER

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Special Attention

    NoSpecatt

  • Submitted date

    2011-04-04

  • Closed date

    2011-06-06

  • Last modified date

    2011-07-05

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

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

    UK68437

Modules/Macros

  •    DESDMEN  DFHDMAFC DFHDMAFD DFHDMDM  DFHDMEN
    DFHDMENA DFHDMENC DFHDMEND DFHDMENF DFHDMENM DFHDMENS DFHDMENT
    DFHDMEN1 DFHDMEN2 DFHDMEN3 DFHDMSVC
    

Fix information

  • Fixed component name

    CICS TS Z/OS V4

  • Fixed component ID

    5655S9700

Applicable component levels

  • R600 PSY UK68437

       UP11/06/09 P F106

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Document Information

Modified date:
05 July 2011