PH44036: CICS System Policy rule type transactionAbend not matched for abends in JVM servers

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The customer has a system policy rule for transaction abends but
  they find that this is not triggered when CICS Liberty abends.
  An example of the error and abend that fails to trigger an event
  is :
  
  DFHSJ0904 07/01/2022 05:53:43 <applid> <userid> ???? <tranid>
  DFHSJTHP Exception 'java.lang.NullPointerException' occurred
  creating object
  reference for class com.ibm.cics.wlp.impl.CICSHttpRunnable.
  
  DFHAC2236 07/01/2022 05:53:43 <applid> Transaction <tranid>
  transaction number 20223 abend AJ05 in program DFHSJTHP term
  ????. Updates
  to local recoverable resources will be backed out.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS Users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: System Policy rule type                 *
  *                      transactionAbend does not match for     *
  *                      abends in Liberty JVM servers.          *
  ****************************************************************
  Following an abend in a Liberty JVM server setting module
  DFHSJJS calls XM Domain to indicate that the transaction should
  be terminated.
  
  Code in module DFHXMAT fails to set a flag indicating that
  an abend is in progress for this transaction.
  
  Code in DFHXMTA tests to see if an abend is in progress and
  since the flag has not been set Policy and Event processing is
  skipped for this abend.
  
  KEYWORDS: POLICY MSGDFHSJ0904 MSGDFHAC2236 AJ05 JVM JVMSERVER
  EVENT CAPTURE POINT TRANSACTION ABEND
  

Problem conclusion

• Module DFHXMAT was updated to set a flag indicating that an
  abend is in progress when called for transaction termination
  from DFHSJJS for abends in Liberty JVM servers.
  
  Policy and Event processing will now occur for abends in a
  Liberty JVM server setting.
  

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:

  UI80508

Modules/Macros

• DFHXMAT  DFHXMTA
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels