IBM Communications Server for Windows provides SNA connectivity for Windows systems, allowing it to connect to IBM z/OS Communications Server and other SNA implementations that support LLC, SDLC, X.25, Channel, and Enterprise Extender connections.
CS/Windows Version 6.1.3 FixPack 3 is an upgrade that includes FixPack 3 updates. It is not a full install, and requires that CS/Windows V 6.1.3 GA level, or FixPack 1, or FixPack 2 should be installed to install fixpack 3. Only fixpacks greater than FixPack 3 should be installed after this installation.
This document contains information supplementary to the online help and the publications. It describes such things as newly-added functions, hints, tips, restrictions, and corrections.
Thank you for choosing Communications Server!
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Check the web sites listed in section 6 for the latest information about this product.
Notes:
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README.HTM | This ReadMe.htm is included in JR40207.EXE, JR40209.EXE and JR40210.EXE package, which describe about the fixes, new functions, and install instructions. |
JR40207.EXE | Self extracting executable that contains Server.exe and nlspack.exe for FixPack 3 files to be installed on the CS/Widnows 6.1.3 Server or Fixpack 1 or FixPack 2 install. |
JR40209.EXE | Self extracting executable that contains Client.exe and nlspack.exe for FixPack 3 files to be installed on the CS/Widnows 6.1.3 API Client or Fixpack 1 or Fixpack 2 install. |
JR40210.EXE | Self extracting executable that contains FixPack 3 files to be installed for CS/Windows 6.1.3 Remote Admin Client install. |
nlspack.exe:
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2.2.1 Integrated with server or client
update
2.2.2 Separate, after server or client
update
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pcsnops.exe
, adminstrings.dll
and pcstrcres.dll
in the server package with those included in the respective language
pack of nlspack. PCCFGXXX.DLL
from the NLS package
directory to the server package directory. Note, this file will not
exist in the server package because it is unique for each language.INSTFIX.BAT
file with an
appropriate
rename and copy statement for the pccfgxxx.DLL
module.
(where xxx reflects the language).
See existing rename and copy statements in INSTFIX.BAT
for format.Perform the installation of the server package update. See section 3 for instructions.
setco.exe
, testlu62.exe
and tracedg.exe
in the client update package with those included from the appropriate
sub-directory of this package.INSTFIX.BAT
file with an
appropriate rename and copy statement present in the client.exe.
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nlspack.exe
of Server, which is present in
JR40207.EXE to a temporary directory.chs
and extract all the
files under chs directory for Simplified Chinese language.INSTFIX.BAT
file for
specific usage instructions. For example:
INSTFIX chs
(no parameters; environment
variables will be used to locate the installation location)INSTFIX chs> nlsfp3.txt 2>&1
(silent install)INSTFIX chs "C:\Program Files\IBM\Communications
Server"
(specify the directory)INSTFIX chs "C:\Program Files\IBM\Communications
Server" > nlsfp3.txt 2>&1
(silent install, specify
directory) NOTE:
INSTFIX.BAT checks if a PCOMM version less than 5.7 CSD3 is installed
and if true, does not update the Trace Facility. CS/Windows 6.1.3 would
use the Trace Facility installed by PCOMM. If you have installed PCOMM
5.7 CSD3 or PCOMM 5.8 on CS/Windows 6.1.3, PCOMM will not install its
Trace Facility. In this case, NLS_INSTFIX will update the CS/Windows
6.1.3 Trace Facility.
If versions of PCOMM prior to 5.7 CSD3 are installed, you will not have any of the CS/Windows 6.1.3 Trace Facility updates or enhancements.
nlspack.exe
of API Client, which is
present in JR40209.EXE to a temporary directory.chs
and extract all the
files under chs directory for Simplified Chinese language.INSTFIX.BAT
file for
specific usage instructions. For example:
INSTFIX chs "C:\Program Files\IBM\CS SNA API Client"
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APARS included from FixPack 3 |
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JR36468 | TN3270 SSL FUNCTION DOES NOT WORK WHEN CSWIN INSTALLED WITH "ALL USERS" INSTEAD OF "CLASSIC" OPTION |
JR37751 | PCS3001E WITH SYSTEM ERROR 1813 |
JR41157 | TRAP IN TN3270 SERVER |
JR42892 | TN3270 SERVER HANGS WHEN A BIND WITH USER DATA IS RECEIVED |
JR44530 | CRASH IN APPN.SYS |
JR46197 | TIGHT LOOP DUE TO STACK OVERFLOW CONDITION |
JR46198 | PCS5920E SEEN WHEN STARTING CSWIN FROM COMMAND LINE BUT NOT WHEN USING NODE OPS TOOL |
JR46199 | SLI_CLOSE AND SLI_BID ON API CLIENT PRODUCE WRONG RESULTS |
JR35775 | SLI_OPEN HANG AFTER LINK OUTAGE AND RECOVERY. |
JR46201 | CPIC API USES INCORRECT LU |
JR46202 | MEMORY LEAK IN TN3270 SERVER WHEN USING SSL |
JR46205 | PRINTER LOSES CONNECTION WHEN SSCP TAKEOVER OCCURS |
JR46208 | ASSERT IN NRTPAPI.C LINE 144 |
JR46209 | PCS3001E PCS5501E STARTING TN3270 SERVER AFTER APPLYING IP FILTER TO RUNNING NODE. |
JR46211 | UNABLE TO ESTABLISH NEW SESSION AFTER TAKEOVER / GIVEBACK TO APPL. RESIDING ON VTAM BEYOND DLUS/NNS. |
JR46218 | SENSE 0805000B RECEIVED WHEN LOGGING IN TO 3270 APPLICATION |
APARS included from FixPack 2 |
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JR35280 | Following CICS reset some TN3270 sessions to internal DLUR LUs could not be re-established |
JR36022 | PROBLEM WITH DOWNSTREAM FIXED PACING WITH DLUR WHEN WINDOW SIZE 0. |
JR35283 | LUS HANG IN PSLUIO-P STATE. |
JR35284 | SYSTEM CRASH PROCESSING SNA STOP COMMAND. |
JR35285 | ERROR WHEN ATTEMPTING TO CONFIGURE EICON CONNECTION. |
JR34512 | TRNSDT MISSING FILES. |
JR36025 | MEMORY LEAK IN KERNEL WITH NMVT ALERTS QUEUED. |
JR36026 | CS/Windows CRASH WHILE PROCESSING APPC DATA WITH INCORRECT LENGTH. |
JR35775 | SLI_OPEN HANG AFTER LINK OUTAGE AND RECOVERY. |
JR36021 | CRASH IN SNA_V5ROUTER. |
APARS included from FixPack 1 |
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JR28327 | TN3270 SERVER MAY SEND TWO BID REQUESTS TO 3270 CLIENT. |
JR28547 | TRAP IN MSGIO.DLL WHEN ISSUING CSSTOP. |
JR28562 | MULTIPLE RTP PIPES WITH SAME COS BETWEEN 2 ADJACENT CONTROL POINTS. |
JR28756 | TRAP IN CSRCMDS.EXE WHEN STOPPING THE NODE USING CSSTOP.EXE. |
JR28764 | RAPIPIPE CREATED AND ACCESSED ANONYMOUSLY. |
JR28819 | TRNSDT INCORRENT TRANSLATION OF CHARACTER E086. |
JR28884 | XIDS FLOOD THE NETWORK WHEN DUPLICATE CP NAME USED. |
JR29664 | MEMORY LEAK IN APPNNODE.EXE WITH ALL INCOMING ATTACHES. |
JR29793 | NODEOPS UTILITY HANGS STARTING THE NODE OR AFTER SCREEN REFRESH. |
JR30350 | TRAP IN CSRCMDS.EXE WHEN STOPPING THE NODE USING CSSTOP.EXE. |
JR32052 | SDLC HANG CONDITION CAUSING ALL PROCESSING TO HALT. |
JR32262 | TN3270 SERVER LU HUNG AFTER OPERATOR CYCLES LU. |
JR32589 | INTERMITTENT TRAPS IN CSRCMDS WHEN ISSUING CSSTOP. |
JR33070 | SLOW PERFORMANCE RUNNING LU62 TRANSACTIONS ON SNA API CLIENT. |
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New function added in FixPack 2 |
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1. Active LUs Display | |
Now, csdisplay can display all the LU's used
by the LUA application or by
the TN3270 Sessions with the new option of ALU. To check the active LUA
& TN3270E session, type "csdisplay ALU" from the command Windows
prompt. Example output of the "csdisplay ALU" as follows: a) When there is one LUA SSCP-LU and one LUA LU-LU Session active. csdisplay ALU LU Name LUNAME05 PU Name PUNAME NAU Address 5 Session Type LU-LU LU Name LUNAME09 PU Name PUNAME NAU Address 9 Session Type SSCP-LU Configured LUs 15 Active LUs 9 LUA(SSCP) 1 LUA(LU-LU) 1 TN3270(SSCP) 0 TN3270(LU-LU) 0 b) When there is one SSCP-LU TN3270 and one LU-LU TN3270 Session type. csdisplay ALU LU Name BASELU02 PU Name PUNAME NAU Address 2 Session Type TN3270E SSCP-LU, 9.122.19.106 LU Name BASELU03 PU Name PUNAME NAU Address 3 Session Type TN3270E LU-LU, 9.122.19.106 Configured LUs 15 Active LUs 9 LUA(SSCP) 0 LUA(LU-LU) 0 TN3270(SSCP) 1 TN3270(LU-LU) 1 c) When there is no SSCP Connected LU's or active LUA Application Seesions or active TN3270 Session. csdisplay ALU Configured LUs 15 Active LUs 9 LUA(SSCP) 0 LUA(LU-LU) 0 TN3270(SSCP) 0 TN3270(LU-LU) 0 |
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2. Support for GSKIT TLS Renegotiation weak security | |
Along with this release, the GSKIT package
used for handling SSL secure sessions has a vulnerability update also
included in the refresh image. If the CS/Windows product is using
TN3270
Server with SSL support enabled, then the GSKIT APAR should be applied
or required to install CS/Windows freshly using the Fixpack2 refresh
image. After installing CS/Windows 6.1.3.2 and gskbas-7.0.4.27, you can override the new default by setting appropriate value to the RENEGOTIATION key in the TN3270_PORT_DEF section in the config file. RENEGOTIATION takes the value NONE (default), ABBREVIATED, FULL. There are 3 possible functions of the gskit library. (a) NONE : No renegotiation permitted (b) ABBREVIATED : Abbreviated renegotiation permitted (c) FULL : Full (or abbreviated) renegotiation permitted. The default is NONE. TN3270_PORT_DEF=( PORT=800 SECURITY=1 CLIENT_AUTHENTICATION=1 SECURITY_LEVEL=HIGH RENEGOTIATION=NONE ) The Communications Server for Windows provides secure
encryption and
authentication
for TN3270 Server clients by using Secure Socket Layer(SSL). The SSL
support
is provided by the GSKIT common component from IBM (package name
gskta).
Refer to the document, JR36023_TLS_SSLv3_Update_CS.pdf, provided with
this
APAR on Fix Central or on the CS/Windows media provided through Fix
Central or
Passport Advantage.
The JR36023 APAR can be found on the Communications Server for Windows
product
under the brand "WebSphere" on Fix Central at:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2262&uid=swg1JR36023 |
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New function added in FixPack 1 | |
1. Transaction Program Synchronization enhancement | |
Previous version of Communication Server for Windows supports only three (Any, None & Confirm ) synchronization level. Added two more synchronization (SYNCPT Negotiable and SYNCPT Required ) to the transaction program definition. # SYNCPT Negotiable The transaction program supports a synchronization level of None, Confirm, or Sync-point. # SYNCPT Required The transaction program supports a synchronization level of Sync-point. The required synchronization level can be selected, when defining the Transaction Program from the basic panel of Node configuration application. | |
2. Snaformat enhance to format the Control Vector (X'82') | |
The snaformat tools is been updated to
format the CV'82' Subarea characteristics subfields, the formated trace
will be presented in the .det file. |
If versions of PCOMM prior to 5.7 CSD3 are installed, you will not have any of the CS/Windows 6.1.3 Trace Facility updates or enhancements.
There is a problem with some versions of PCOMM prior to 5.7 CSD3 where using ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS to remove PCOMM removes the Service APPNNODE from the REGISTRY. CS/Windows will NOT run successfully without this registry entry. While this problem has been resolved in later PCOMM versions you can do the following to address the problem.
The recommended procedure in this situation is as follows:
INSTFIX.BAT can be run with the following options to preserve output to a log file, such as for silent install including errors in the log.
INSTFIX > FIX_PACK.TXT 2>&1
NOTE 1: INSTFIX.BAT issues
"NET STOP APPNNODE
" to stop APPNNODE Services.
"NET STOP LDLCSERV
" to stop LDLCSERV Services.
"CSTRACE STOP
" and "CSTRACE SHUTDOWN
" to stop
CSTRCSER trace Service.
NOTE 2: INSTFIX will rename the current or target files being replaced to &file.pre6133, then copy the updated files.
If for some reason you rerun INSTFIX.BAT, you will receive errors during each rename because the file.pre6133 file will already exist.The original copy of the file will be preserved in file.pre6133 and available as a backup for restore purposes.
If for some reason you need to restore or backout this fixpack, you would have to manually rename the updated file names and restore the original files.
NOTE 3: After all the files are copied, INSTFIX.BAT
automatically issues
"SERVICESTEST -c LDLCSERV
" command to initialize LDLCSERV
service.
"NET START LDLCSERV
" to start LDLCSERV service.
NOTE 4: The default value of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\Communications Server\CurrentVersion\VersionNumber
will be changed to 6133.
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New APARs included in FixPack 2 since CSNT6.1.3 GA | |
JR36070 | TRNSDT MISSING FILES. |
New APARs included in FixPack 1 since CSNT6.1.3 GA | |
None. |
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New function added in FixPack 2 | |
None. | |
New function added in FixPack 1 | |
APPC Cancel Conversation support | |
1. | The CANCEL_CONVERSATION verb is a control
verb that will cancel a
connection between a local LU and partner LU using a specific
transaction program (tp_id) and a conversation (conv_id). The
definition of the VCB structure for the CANCEL_CONVERSATION verb is as
follows:
typedef struct cancel_conversationPlease refer the Client/Server programming guide for usage of this verb. |
Some examples follow:
INSTFIX "C:\Program Files\IBM\CS SNA API Client"
(to install fixpack)INSTFIX "C:\Program Files\IBM\CS SNA API Client"
> CLINSTFIX.LOG 2>&1
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Uninstallation instructions are in the Quick Beginnings book at http://www.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/windows/library/index.html
To ensure a complete uninstallation of the product, download the cleanup package (JR21546) from http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2262&uid=swg24009834
If Personal Communications is installed on the same machine as Communications Server, you must uninstall Personal Communications before uninstalling Communications Server.
All applications using Communications Server should be terminated before you attempt to uninstall the product. Attempting to uninstall Communications Server while an application (such as APING or Personal Communications) is running will cause the uninstall to hang until the application is terminated.
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