PH62097: SECURITY METADATA FAILS TO LOAD WITH INVALID ACCESS LEVEL, MISLEADING MESSAGE WHEN INVALID TRANSACTION CLASS IS SPECIFIED

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• This APAR will address the following issues:
  
  - When attempting to extract CICS RACF transaction settings, if
  a non-existent class is specified for XTRAN then the following
  message is produced:
  
  ERROR: No users found in the specified classes
  
  This message is miss-leading as it indicates no users have been
  found, however the problem is that the class specified is
  incorrect.
  
  - ESM file contains an incorrect resource name for XRES.
  A logic error means that only the last qualifier is being output
  as the resource name.
  eg: prefix.restype.resname is output as resname
  
  - Some metadata is not obsfucated when HIDE=YES is used
  
  - Security Metadata fails to load with a definition that has
  an invalid access level.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS Users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: This APAR addresses a number of minor   *
  *                      security metadata issues found after    *
  *                      the GA of CICS TS 6.2.                  *
  ****************************************************************
  1) When attempting to extract CICS RACF transaction settings, if
  a non-existent class is specified for XTRAN then the following
  message is produced:
  
  ERROR: No users found in the specified classes
  
  This message is miss-leading as it indicates no users have been
  found, however the problem is that the class specified is
  incorrect.
  
  2) A logic error results in an ESM file containing an incorrect
  resource name for XRES. Only the last qualifier is being output
  as the resource name.
  eg: prefix.restype.resname is output as resname
  
  3) Some metadata is not obsfucated when HIDE=YES is used
  
  4) Security Metadata fails to load with a definition that has
  an invalid access level.
  

Problem conclusion

• The above issues have been addressed and corrected.
  

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:

  UI97802

Modules/Macros

• DFH$XSU
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V6

• Fixed component ID

  5655YA100

Applicable component levels

• R500 PSY UI97802

     UP24/07/27 P F407

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