IBM TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.6 PTF APAR README

IBM(R) TXSeries(TM) Encina 5.0.0.6 PTF APAR README for AIX(R), Windows(R), HP-UX (R) and Solaris(R) Systems

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About this document

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, Encina to version 5.0.0.6. This README file lists the defects fixed in the TXSeries, Encina 5.0.0.6 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 Encina 5.0 PTF6, see the READPTF_Lang.htm file for the PTF.

Table of contents

Important notes

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.6 PTF

Contents of previous PTF releases

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.5 PTF
Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.4 PTF
Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.3 PTF
Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.2 PTF
Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 PTF

Important notes

The following are important notes about TXSeries Encina 5.0  on the AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows systems.

  1. Starting with TXSeries 5.0 PTF1 (5.0.0.1), the default version of enconsole on AIX has been changed from the Java-based version as shipped in 5.0.0.0 to a non-Java implementation similar to the enconsole that shipped in TXSeries 4.3. This change was made to address potential stability problems related to the interaction of DCE and Java on AIX.  The non-Java Enconsole lacks two new features in 5.0.0.0:  (1) support for defining, viewing, and updating routing tables and (2) National Language support.  Users wishing to employ routing tables can use enccp for this purpose.  The Java implementation is still supported. Users can make use of the Java implementation by invoking the jenconsole script located in /usr/lpp/encina/bin. In case of stability problems encountered during usage, we advise users to revert to the default.
  2. TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 and later PTFs are incompatible with the Tivoli Instrumentation module shipped with Encina. Due to changes in the implementation of Encina, the Tivoli module does not work if this TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.4 PTF is installed. If your site depends on the correct operation of the TXSeries Tivoli Instrumentation you should not install this PTF and should contact your customer support representative for further information. The changes in Encina do not affect any scripts that you may have written to allow Tivoli monitoring of TXSeries processes; the incompatibility only affects the Instrumentation module included with the product.
  3. Beginning Encina 5.0 PTF 4, TXSeries usage can be monitored by the IBM Tivoli License Manager.
  4. TXSeries ENCINA 5.0 PTF 6 (5.0.0.6) will be the last PTF release for TXSeries ENCINA 5.0. It is recommended that all customers move to the latest PTF level.

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.6 PTF

This section lists the APARs fixed in this PTF.

APAR Number Abstract
IY44374 Encina servers FATAL with DCE-SEC-0072 during key change.
IY73688

JENCONSOLE does not pick up renamed log volume names.
IY75414

SFS server crash during memory allocation.
IY77573 SFS server crashed reaching max TID limit.
IY81234 ENCINA server aborting with "TC SERIAL ABORT WITH CODE: LOOPED 121 TIMES" error message.
IY92451 Avoid looping forever while dumping Encina structure.
IY95132

SHOWPROCINFO hangs in JA_JP environment.
IY95133 SFS client displays ENC-SFS-0051 error on Windows when MALLOC fails.
IY95206 Memory leak in MONBINDING for OTS.
IY95216 With MALLOCTYPE=3.1 the CICS region fails to start because of a segmentation violation.
IY82512 Client applications unable to rebind to new server instances: DCE-RPC-0066
IY95219

Log name exchange between PPCGWY and IMS fails during FORCE XLN.

Contents of previous PTF releases

This section provides information about how you can find the APARs fixed in the previous TXSeries 5.0 PTF releases:

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.5 PTF

APAR Number Abstract
IY59306 Allow JAVA and Encina signal handler interoperability on Solaris
IY60108 Encina Monitor sets TMXA_CLOSE_ON_THREAD_EXIT option for all RMs. This option not valid
for single association
IY60887 EMA_TERMINATE API needs to be added in the libEncMonServ library
IY62203 Memory leaks in PA RPC Handle hash table
IY63719 Unable to install more than 3 PTFs on Solaris
IY65021 Enconsole panel throws Java exceptions when starting and stopping servers and does not display the
serious messages as well.
IY65350 Cannot restore SFS backup files greater than 2GB in size
IY71167 Incorrect PA randomization on Windows XP

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.4 PTF

APAR Number Abstract
IY59536 DRPCGWY is not able to handle if RPC definition size exceeds 16K.
IY45905 DRPC gateway startup fails with DCE-rpc-0012 (address in use).
IY47923 The Combination of 5.0 client with 4.x server combination does not work in case of Monitor applications
because of the design changes in the binding models from 4.2 to 5.0
IY48563 xa_prepare returns XAER_PROTO in case of dynamic registration.
IY50237 Fatal error in Monitor when getting top ancestor of an invalid tid. This problem occurs when the MAS
 is built to use 'static association' with the RM.
IY51256 Encina Com Wizard/comTidl compiler generates bad code when migrating from TX4.2/
Gradient DCE to TX5.0 IBM DCE.
IY53517 Incorrect compiler directive in code, generated by COM wizard.
IY54740 The 6 digit PID's were getting truncated in the Encina trace.
IY54920 The RPC call which takes conformant array as it's argument is failing and returns error.
IY58037 DRPCIDL refers to a local AFS directory for one of its dependent libraries on AIX platform.

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.3 PTF

This section lists the APARs fixed in TXSeries Encina 5.0 PTF3.

APAR Number Problem Description
IY40183 SFS client hanging on WaitForOfd.
IY44374 Encina servers suffer a FATAL failure with DCE-sec-0072 during key change. 
IY41168 Enconsole is not picking up existing valid DCE login credentials in a DCE Slim client setup on Windows
systems. This requires the user to perform a second DCE login.
IY46854 Problems with Encina repository management tools
IY46820 HP showProcInfo causes enm to segv, because it uses dde.
IY43250 Improve Encina signal handling routines.
IY46822 SFS server abends "Encina Internal Error" while deleting records from a sfs-btree file.
IY43902 tkadmin commands fail with ENC-tra-0100 with large TIDs.
IY42669 Rectify errors in Encina header files
IY45171 The Encina transaction module (OTS) does not take negative TIDs.
IY44367 Encina 5.0 WIN NT/2000 PTF2 install fails when the Locale is non-English.
IY46078 The processing agent (PA) crashes when failing to attach to shared memory. When there are 2
or more Monitor application servers (MASs), the shared memory string of the last MAS created is
used for all other MASs when they increase the PA count.

For more information about PTF3, see the "TXSeries Encina Version 5.0 PTF 3 Download page" of the TXSeries Support Web site:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=175&context=SSAL2T&uid=swg24005555.

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.2 PTF

This section lists the APARs fixed in the TXSeries Encina 5.0 PTF2.

APAR Number Abstract
IY37413 Stability and performance problems in Enconsole
IY42151 Overlap of check box in wintidl GUI
IY42154 Java JVM dumping core for poor interactions between Java JVM signal handlers and Encina signal handlers
IY42155 Problems with build on wintidl GUI for having long path names in the options
IY42146 Resource timed out problem in wintidl GUI while starting the GUI after ending abruptly
IY38354 Dead lock problem while deleting records from very large SFS btree-clustered files
IY37784 Unauthenticated clients not getting binding handles even when the servers were set for no authorization.
IY21899 Memory leaks in DPL programming model.
IY18449 Application abort while using FLT model in PPC gateway
IY30109 Enconsole unstability on AIX 5.1
IY42157 Memory leaks in Encina++ servers using OTS factory model.
IY42158 TIDL compiler not accepting user defined exceptions in TACF
IY42159 PPC Gateway fails with Enc-PPC-1032 due to TID mismatch
IY38268 Client not refreshing the binding handles after RPC exceptions due to server crashing
IY34863 Getting  ENC-bde-0040 Invalid group in server.out when the groupname list is larger than buffer size.
IY39195 Memory leaks in DDT component in SFS

For more information about PTF2, see the "TXSeries Encina Version 5.0 PTF 2 Download page" of the TXSeries Support Web site: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=175&context=SSAL2T&q=&uid=swg24004349.

Contents of the TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 PTF

TXSeries Encina 5.0.0.1 PTF is only on the AIX and Windows platforms to synchronize with the GA levels of TXSeries Encina 5.0 on the HP-UX and Solaris platforms. Applying this PTF upgrades TXSeries from 5.0.0.0 to 5.0.0.1 on AIX and Windows platforms.

This is a full refresh of the GA product and contains all the TXSeries Encina 4.2 and 4.3 APARs processed since the TXSeries 5.0 release on AIX and Windows systems

For more details about the defects that went into this PTF, please see the TXSeries 5.0.0.1 PTF Readme, which is available on the "TXSeries Encina 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=swg24003552.

There have been many modifications done with respect to the Encina Enconsole/Jenconsole facility. For more details please refer to the TXSeries support flashes on the Web at the following site: http://www.ibm.com/software/ts/txseries/support