PK45212: ABEND0C4 IN DFHEMSR3 +X'986'. DATA RECEIVED FROM CEOS LIST PANEL CAUSED LOOP PAST COMMAREA DATA WHICH WAS NOT ON 4 BYTE BOUNDARY.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• DFHAP0001 LIBRCICS An abend(code 0C4/AKEA)has occurred at offset
  X'000039F0' in module DFHEMSRE in the ROWCOL routine.
  DFHEMSR3 was attempting a loop through the fields entered into
  the last MAP that was received for the CEOS REPORT LIST panel.
  The number of commands is supposed to be passed to DFHEMSR3 in a
  commarea,however at the time of the dump that commarea is all
  binary zeroes, including the CAINLEN field, which should contain
  the length of the length of the area holding the list of
  commands pointed to by CAINPTR, which is based off of INPDATA.
  Routine NOTECOMD expects the input length of the data received
  to be a multiple of 4 but in this case it was x16, so the loop
  end condition was missed. The RECEIVE for the data entered on
  the CEOS list panel received was x'1E' bytes of data, but code
  relies on input data of multiples of 4 bytes. As this data was
  not on a 4 byte multiple, looping past the end of the data
  which caused the abend0c4.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS Users.                              *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: DFHAP0001 An abend(code                 *
  *                      0C4/AKEA) has occurred at offset        *
  *                      X'000039F0' in module DFHEMSRE.         *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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  RCF outputs menu lists of terminals, reports, TD queues or jobs.
  The next transid is set to read the input screen, which can be
  action requests against any of the list items. The input
  consists of a possible series of 4 byte fields
  containing an SBA, a buffer address and an action code.
  The list processors (DFHEMST3, DFHEMSR3, DFHEMSP3 or DFHEMSJ3)
  run through the input 4 bytes at a time until the data length
  processed equals the data input. In this case the received TIOA
  did not contain data whose length was a multiple of 4 bytes
  resulting in the transaction looping off the end of the TIOA.
  Additional keywords: abend0C4 abendS0C4 msgDFHAP0001
                       ASRA abendASRA DFHAC2206
                       msgDFHAC2206 CEMS CEOS abendAKEA
  

Problem conclusion

• DFHEMSR3, DFHEMSP3, DFHEMSJ3, and DFHEMST3 have been altered to
  stop processing data when they encounter the end of the TIOA.
  

Temporary fix

• FIX AVAILABLE BY PTF ONLY
  

Comments

• ž**** PE08/10/17 FIX IN ERROR. SEE APAR PK71166  FOR DESCRIPTION
  

APAR Information

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

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

  UK29951

Modules/Macros

•    DFHEMSJ3 DFHEMSP3 DFHEMSR3 DFHEMST3
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICSTS FOR VSE

• Fixed component ID

  564805400

Applicable component levels

• RB0P PSY UK29951

     UP07/10/15 P E412

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