PK07175: UPDATE CICSPLEX SM TO SUPPORT OA11675 CHANGES

Obtain the fix for this APAR.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• CICSPlex SM is impacted by the changes made by MVS APAR OA11675.
  .
  The CICSRGN and MCICSRGN SIOREQ fields (both based on ASCBIOSC)
  may contain incorrect values after installation of OA11675.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICSPlex/SM V3R1M0 Users                 *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: After installing the PTF for z/OS       *
  *                      APAR OA11675, the CICSRGN SIOREQ        *
  *                      attribute in the CICSPlex SM Web        *
  *                      User Interface will contain a           *
  *                      negative value if the number of         *
  *                      Start I/Os exceeds 2147483647.          *
  *                                                              *
  *                      The value will be correctly reported    *
  *                      in the CICSPlex SM TSO End User         *
  *                      Interface.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: After applying the PTF that resolves this    *
  *                 APAR, all CMASes and Web User Interface      *
  *                 servers must be recycled to pick up the new  *
  *                 code.  Note that the restarts do not need    *
  *                 to be done at the same time.                 *
  ****************************************************************
  The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface assumes that all four
  byte binary attributes are signed. This is not the case with
  the SIOREQ attribute on the CICSRGN resource table after the
  installation of the PTF for z/OS APAR OA11675.
  
  Because of this, if more than 2,147,483,647 Start I/Os are
  performed by a CICS, the SIOREQ CICSRGN attribute will contain
  a value with the high order bit on. This will be treated as
  a negative value by the Web User Interface formatting routine
  EYU0VODF.
  

Problem conclusion

• EYU0VOPU (VOPU) is called to extract a resource attribute from
  a resource table. Code has been added to VOPU to detect if the
  SIOREQ attribute is being extracted from the CICSRGN resource
  table and output an attribute that is longer than four bytes
  for processing by EYU0VODF (VODF). VODF always treats attributes
  that are longer than four bytes long as unsigned.
  
  Similar code has been added to EYU0MOFT (MOFT) and EYU0ARRP
  (ARRP) to support SIOREQ in RTA EVENDTL CURRDATA and REXX
  programs using TPARSE.
  
  Note that the MCICSRGN SIOREQ, CURSIORATE and INTSIORATE are
  not changed by this APAR.
  

Temporary fix

• FIX AVAILABLE BY PTF ONLY
  

Comments

APAR Information

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

  PK07171

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

  UK90005

Modules/Macros

•    DYU0MOFT DYU0VOPK EYU0ARRP EYU0MOFT EYU0VOPU
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CPSM CICS 3.1

• Fixed component ID

  5655M1501

Applicable component levels

• R100 PSY UK90005

     UP05/11/22 P F511

Fix is available

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