PH50617: CICS EXPLORER FAILS TO RETURN TASK VIEW FOR CICS 6.1 REGION. CPSM EXCEPTION TRACE ENTRIES WITH DEBUG TEXT HRSOVFLO SEEN.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• You have upgraded your CICS regions to CICS 6.1. When you use
  the CICS Explorer to look at active tasks in the region, no data
  is returned. You may see the following error messages
  
  CNX0220E A connection error has occurred: SERVER ERROR
  CNX0624E: Get Task from "plexname" failed
  
  and in the trace from the WUI Server region, you'll see an
  exception user trace record written with debug text HRSOVFLO
  indicating an overflow situation.
  
  The problem may also occur in your own user CPSM API programs
  accessing the TASK table
  
  This issue may manifest itself in other ways as well. If the
  WUI browser is used, you will see the exception trace.
  .
  If your own CPSM API program is fetching TASK table records, you
  may see incorrect values for clock/time related fields. They
  could be unreasonably large.
  Additional Symptoms:
  Region running with Transaction isolation or TRANISO receives:
  .
  DFHMN0001 An abend (code 0C4/AKEA) has occurred at
            offset X'361C' in module DFHMNXM.
  DFHXM0310
  A severe error (code X'130D') has occurred while terminating
  task number xxxxx with transaction identifier tttt.
  If the task had a principal facility, it has been released.
  The task is suspended indefinitely.
  
  TMA Transaction Monitoring Area   XM0310 MN0001
  overwrite
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS Users                               *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: CICS Explorer active task list fails    *
  *                      in CICS 6.1 region with Server Error    *
  *                      500.                                    *
  ****************************************************************
  When the CICS Explorer is used to monitor the active tasks list
  in CICS region 6.1, no data is returned. Additionally, Server
  Error 500 is observed on the screen.
  The Server Error 500 occurs when CPSM WUI is used for the
  Explorer connection as the value of task suspend time is too
  big, this is because of an error in a CICS copybook, DFHMNTPS.
  This problem may also present itself in other problems such as
  spurious data values.
  

Problem conclusion

• CICS has been changed to correct the offsets in the CICS
  copybook, DFHMNTPS.
  

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:

  UI90367 UI90368

Modules/Macros

• CJH0NAG0 CJH0NQHT CJH9NMTE CJI0NAG0 CJI0NQHT CJI9NMTE CJJ0NAG0
  CJJ0NQHT CJJ9NMTE DFH$MOLS DFHMNDM  DFHMNDUF DFHMNMN  DFHMNPDA
  DFHMNTDS DFHMNTI  DFHMNXM  EYU0MMCL EYU0NAG0 EYU0NCLB EYU0NHCT
  EYU0NHFM EYU0NQHT EYU0TNAL EYU9NMTE EYU9XHID EYUTNAGA
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V6

• Fixed component ID

  5655YA100

Applicable component levels

• R400 PSY UI90367

     UP23/02/10 P F302 ¢

• R40M PSY UI90368

     UP23/02/10 P F302 ¢

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