Effect of delayed recovery on PLTPI processing

Because recovery processing does not take place until PLTPI processing is complete, PLT programs may fail during an emergency restart if they attempt to access resources protected by retained locks. If PLT programs are not written to handle the LOCKED exception condition, they abend with an AEX8 abend code.

If successful completion of PLTPI processing is essential before your CICS® applications are allowed to start, consider alternative methods of completing necessary PLT processing. You may have to allow emergency restart recovery processing to finish, and then complete the failed PLTPI processing when the locks have been released.