IC99229: PCOM: HACL REGISTER KEY EVENT GENERATES EXCEPTION WITH DELETE OR INSERT KEY

Personal Communications 6.0.10
Personal Communications 6.0.11
Personal Communications 6.0.12
Personal Communications 6.0.13
Personal Communications 6.0.15

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Win7 64bit.
  Visual Studio 2010. VB.NET, framework 4.0.
  PComm Interop 6.0.8 or 6.0.9
  
  General description:
  Application is using the interop libraries to communication via
  mainframe 3270 emulator. Emulator session and functions operate
  normally until the user presses 'delete' or 'insert'. Those
  keypresses throw "A first chance exception of type 'System.
  AccessViolationException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll"
  
  See APAR SE57985 for original symptoms.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All Visual Basic application users of        *
  *                 5250 HACL KeyEvent                           *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: VB application crashes when Delete or   *
  *                      Insert key is pressed                   *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  Visual Basic application is registered with PCOM 5250 HACL
  KeyEvent. When Delete or Insert key is pressed on the 5250
  emulator Presentation Space, the HACL application crashes
  with an APPCRASH exception.
  

Problem conclusion

• AUTPS.DLL has been changed to handle memory allocation and
  deallocation while capturing key events.
  
  Fix is scheduled for PCOM 6.0.10 Refresh Pack
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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

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

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  PCOMM V5 COMBO-

• Fixed component ID

  5639I7000

Applicable component levels

• R609 PSY

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