PH52818: ABEND AEXZ DURING CHANGE PASSWORD WITH EMBEDDED BLANK IN USERID.

Obtain the fix for this APAR.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• An embedded blank in front of a userid on EXEC CICS CHANGE
  PASSWORD command caused an abend AEXZ. The region was
  unresponsive to users and had to be shutdown and restarted.
  
  
  The exception entry was an extract failure and looked like
  this,
  
  
  XS FE04 XSSB  *EXC* FUNCTION(INQUIRE_PASSWORD_DATA)
  RESPONSE(EXCEPTION) REASON(EXTRACT_FAILURE) SAF_RESPONSE(8)
  SAF_REASON(50)
  
                     ESM_RESPONSE(18) ESM_REASON(50)
  METHOD_USED(FULL)
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: An embedded blank in front of a USERID  *
  *                      on EXEC CICS CHANGE PASSWORD command    *
  *                      caused an abend AEXZ.                   *
  ****************************************************************
  When the command EXEC CICS CHANGE is executed with PASSWORD,
  USERID and NEW PASSWORD to set the new password and the USERID
  has either leading or an embedded blanks, the USERID is not
  recognised by the ESM. This causes the change to fail.
  The failure is not being handled correctly, resulting in an
  abend AEXZ instead of the command returning a suitable RESP and
  RESP2 value.
  

Problem conclusion

• The EXEC CICS CHANGE PASSWORD command has been updated to return
  RESP=INVREQ RESP2=32 when the userid contains leading or
  embedded blanks.
  
  The CICS documentation for EXEC CICS CHANGE PASSWORD and EXEC
  CICS CHANGE PHRASE has been updated to add new EIBRESP2 value
  of 32 for EIBRESP=INVREQ as follows.
  RESP2 values:
  32 - The user ID field contains a blank character in an
  invalid position.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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

  PH51378

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

  UI91096

Modules/Macros

• DFHESN   DFHXSPW  DFHXSPWT DFHXSSBT
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V6

• Fixed component ID

  5655YA100

Applicable component levels

• R400 PSY UI91096

     UP23/04/04 P F304

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