PH66610: DFHPI9500 IS ISSUED DURING PARSE OF PIC 9 AND S9 FIELDS WITH 19 TO 31 DIGITS

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Backport of fix PH05301 to CICS 5.6
  PH05301 - DFHPI9500 IS ISSUED DURING PARSE OF PIC 9 AND S9
  FIELDS WITH 19 TO 31 DIGITS
  
  Customer is using DFHLS2JS to convert a language structure to
  JSON schema.  The language structure being converted contains
  long PIC 9 fields.
  .
  For example:
  
  01 langStructure.
  03 org           PIC   9(03).
  03 firstField    PIC   9(20).
  
  The conversion fails with the following message.
  
  DFHPI9500E An internal error has occurred.  Please contact IBM
  Support.
  
  The DFHLS2JS job output shows the following:
  
  java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:
  "99999999999999999999"  as it parses data description entry:
  03 firstField   PIC   9(20)
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: DFHPI9500E when running DFHLS2JS,       *
  *                      DFHLS2WS, or DFHLS2SC with a Cobol      *
  *                      copybook containing a PIC 9(n) DISPLAY, *
  *                      where 'n' is greater than 18.           *
  ****************************************************************
  DFHLS2JS, DFHLS2SC or DFHLS2WS is run with a Cobol copybook as
  input.  The copybook contains a PIC 9 with usage of DISPLAY (the
  default) that has a total of 19 or more digits.
  The web services assistant attempts to store the maximum value
  for this field in a Java long however the value is too big which
  causes a java.lang.NumberFormatException and DFHPI9500E message.
  

Problem conclusion

• CICS has been updated to handle Cobol copybooks which contain a
  PIC 9(n) DISPLAY field, where 'n' is greater than 18 in
  DFHLS2JS, DFHLS2SC, and DFHLS2WS conversions.
  

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:

  UO04417

Modules/Macros

• DFJ@H176
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels

• R300 PSY UO04417

     UP25/08/07 P F508

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