IBM(R) TXSeries(TM) CICS 5.0.0.2 PTF APAR README for AIX(R), Windows(R), HP-UX (R) and Solaris(R) Systems
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The TXSeries Program Temporary Fix (PTF) is a collection of cumulative product patches and recent software fixes. For TXSeries, separate PTFs exist for CICS and Encina(R). Installing this PTF updates TXSeries to version 5.0.0.2. This README file lists the defects fixed in the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.2 PTF for the AIX, Windows, HP-UX and Solaris operating systems. This README also provides some important notes about TXSeries on the AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows systems.
Note: For information about obtaining and installing the TXSeries
CICS 5.0.0.2, see the READPTF_
Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.2 PTF
Contents of previous PTF releases
Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF
The following are important notes about TXSeries CICS 5.0 on the AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows systems.
This section lists the APARs fixed in this PTF.
| APAR # | Abstract |
| IY31878 | Inquire Connection in TOR for APPC returns wrong values |
| IY33219 | CICSTERM fails when SafetyLevel is set to normal |
| IY34265 | Listener Process Name is wrong (bin.cics) |
| IY34812 | Log corrupt when CICS fails unexpectedly |
| IY35491 | INQUIRE TSQ resets the TSQ Read Index |
| IY35880 | Log record corruption on CICS shutdown |
| IY35981 | PL/I programs does not work when migrated from TX 4.2 to TX 5.0 |
| IY37032 | (Windows Systems) TSConfig - Online help for DefaultUserId needs to be updated |
| IY37060 | Keyboard locked due to the FREEKB bit in the WCC being set off
due to the EBCDIC ASCII conversion in CICSTELD |
| IY37371 | Running CICSMIGRATE with -M flag for multiple regions fail |
| IY38002 | ERZ046357E/0572 could not access values during cicsmigrate |
| IY38006 | External trace attribute not found during cicsmigrate |
| IY38317 | Symrecs getting generated after region shutdown |
| IY38349 | (AIX Systems) TXSeries 5.0 AIX use of CICS_SFS_SIZE variable |
| IY38840 | PGMIDERR even if the program runs OK |
| IY39511 | (Windows Systems) CICSLU process terminates unexpectedly (unhandled exception) |
| IY39514 | (Windows Systems) TXSeries V5.0 Windows Locale |
| IY39573 | CSMT getting filled up with ERZ027016E messages |
| IY39577 | (AIX Systems) Change cicsteld process to spawning with Exec |
| IY39578 | (AIX Systems) Change cicsmkcobol to use cob instead of ld in CICS 5.0 |
| IY39580 | (AIX or HP-UX Systems) Cicsas hangs because of fopen in our signal handler |
| IY39583 | Cicsas leaks memory for each terminal install through RPC |
| IY39584 | CICSDDT ftod fails when encountering a hex 1A |
| IY39585 | CICS initialization not detecting invalid RegionPoolBase of 0 |
| IY39586 | CPU time for trans are being accumulated, resulting in AICA |
| IY39590 | Ftos fails to process the data stream containing 0x1A character |
| IY39591 | (Windows Systems) CMF Improvements in Windows |
| IY39592 | (AIX Systems) CICS ppcgateway server is unable to start using smitty |
| IY39593 | (Solaris or HP-UX Systems) Unable to restart all services using "cicscp -v start all" |
| IY39594 | Cobol:cics freemain DataPointer(Address of A1) leads abend A47B |
| IY39599 | Trace system double deallocation leads to various errors |
This section lists the APARs fixed in the previous TXSeries CICS PTF release:
Contents of the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF
The TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF is for AIX and Windows platforms only, to synchronize with the GA levels of TXSeries CICS 5.0 on HP-UX and Solaris platforms. Applying this PTF upgrades from 5.0.0.0 to 5.0.0.1 on AIX and Windows platforms.
This is a cumulative update for the CICS functions of the GA TXSeries 5.0 product for the AIX and Windows platforms and contains the following:
Also included in this PTF are the following CICS 5.0 defects:
| APAR Number | Abstract |
| IY09951 | SMIT panel for CICS is corrupted. |
| IY33194 | DATA-CONTEXT and DATA-RECOVERY in ServerExpress to be supported |
| IY34123 | Dumping of Empty Ring Buffer is happening when trace is off |
| IY34124 | Internal error when PD has bad path |
| IY34125 | XA transactions abend with A583 after a normal COBOL transaction is run |
| IY34130 | CADB DISPLAY error on Server Express |
| IY34170 | CICS region may not start due to deadlock between CICSLM main and listener threads |
| IY34887 | PROG798 occurred at DBCS Field because SO (0X0F) is incorrectly inserted without SI (0X0E) |
For more details about the defects that went into this PTF, please see the TXSeries CICS 5.0.0.1 PTF Readme, which is available on the "TXSeries CICS Version 5.0 PTF 1 (AIX - NT) Download Page" of the TXSeries Support Web site: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=175&context=SSAL2T&uid=swg24001889.