PK23631: DFHPC0405 ABEND APTM ISSUED WHILE PROCESSING AEIV TRANSACTION CEMS. USING RCF FEATURE BROWSING REPORT HITTING PF11 THEN PF5

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Running CICS TS 1.1.1, using the RCF - Report Controller Feature
  to browse a report, you hit PF11 key twice then PF5 key.
  You receive the following errors:
  ABENDAEIV - length error out of DFHEMSBR.
  Followed by:
  DFHPC0405 CICSV5 Abend APTM has been issued while processing
            abend AEIV for the same task, transaction CEMS.
  The dump also showed some storage violations had occurred-
  DFHPD0125 Storage violation detected. Trailing SAA is invalid.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS Users.                              *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Message DFHPC0405 ABEND APTM HAS        *
  *                      BEEN ISSUED WHILE PROCESSING ABEND      *
  *                      AEIV FOR THE SAME TASK, TRANSACTION     *
  *                      CEMS is issued while browsing a         *
  *                      report using RCF.                       *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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  When using CEOS or CEMS to browse a report, RCF (DFHEMSBR)
  reads the records from POWER to build up the screen, but also
  writes the records for each screen to a cache buffer. Record
  types of MCC Block data check (X'73'), MCC Allow data check
  (X'7B') and MCC no-op (X'03') are excluded from the cache and
  are also ignored when building up the screen. In this case
  the report contained the following sequence of control
  characters: X'01' (print/nospace), X'73' (MCC Block data check)
  and X'0B' (space one line immediately).
  If a print/nospace print record is immediately followed by a
  print line with an immediate space MCC control character
  DFHEMSBR decrements the number of lines spaced by 1. The
  presence of the X'73' record between the print/nospace
  and the immediate space record caused DFHEMSBR to
  incorrectly not decrement the number of lines spaced,
  resulting in an incorrect blank line on the screen.
  If the user then scrolls right, DFHEMSBR reads the records
  from the cache. The cache does not include the X'73' record
  so the X'01' record is now followed by a X'0B' record and
  the line number is correctly decremented.
  This means that the number of lines available in the cache
  is one less that the number of lines originally displayed.
  So when reading the final line for the display from the
  cache, DFHEMSBR reads residual data and picks up a large
  record length (X'C840'). This length is added to the cumulative
  total length of data for the screen, resulting in a length
  which is greater than the maximum allowed on an EXEC CICS
  SEND command (decimal 32767) and an abend AEIV (LENGERR)
  occurs, followed by an abend APTM.
  Other unpredictable results may occur depending on the
  residual data in the cache.
  Additional keywords: abendAEIV abendAPTM msgDFHPC0405
  DFHSM0002 code X'0305' msgDFHSM0002 DFHSM0102 msgDFHSM0102
  

Problem conclusion

• DFHEMSBR had been altered to not set the indicator that
  results in the line count being decremented, for record types
  of X'03', X'73' or X'7B'.
  

Temporary fix

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  FIX AVAILABLE BY PTF ONLY
  

Comments

APAR Information

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

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

  UK17995

Modules/Macros

•    DFHEMSBR
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICSTS FOR VSE

• Fixed component ID

  564805400

Applicable component levels

• RB0P PSY UK17995

     UP06/09/18 P E410

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