IT29208: PCOM: AUTSESS.DLL CRASH ON WINDOWS 10 USING AUTOMATION OBJECT APPLICATION

IBM Personal Communications 13.0.3
IBM Personal Communications 12.0.5
IBM Personal Communications 14.0.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• PComm V6 has worked on pre-Win 10 installations. However, on
  Win 10 I am getting an exception from PComm
  (interop.AutSessTypeLibrary - System.AccessViolationException -
  "Attempted to read or write protected memory." Calling
  '_Session.autECLPS.WaitForString("login:", 0, 0)'. I have
  installing fixes for V6 and I have even tried a trial version of
  V13 - both still have the same issue.
  
  I see this in the Application Event log.
  -------------------
  Faulting application name: IBMFix.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time
  stamp: 0xd4ac28fc
  Faulting module name: autsess.dll, version: 13000.0.17326.1173,
  time stamp: 0x5a15a002
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Fault offset: 0x00004ceb
  Faulting process id: 0x55d0
  Faulting application start time: 0x01d4b8d0ad73509a
  Faulting application path:
  D:\OneDrive\Developments\Kew\Projects\Web Site
  Interface\IBMFix\IBMFix\IBMFix\bin\Debug\IBMFix.exe
  Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Personal
  Communications\autsess.dll
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All IBM Personal Communications users                        *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * PCOMM crashes intermittently after running any PCOMM VB      *
  * Script Macro                                                 *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Open a PCOMM display session
  2. Connect to Host
  3. Run any pre-generated Macro
  After some time, the PCOMM application PCSWS.EXE crashes.
  

Problem conclusion

• Proper memory allocation was not carried out for a variable
  involved with macro functionality.
  Changes have been made to autsess.dll module to address this
  issue.
  Fix scheduled for PCOMM 12.0.5 and 13.0.3 and 14.0.1 Refresh
  Packs
  

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:

Modules/Macros

• AUTSESS
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  PCOMM COMBO-ENG

• Fixed component ID

  5639I7000

Applicable component levels