PK55111: PROVIDE A SERVER-SIDE TRANSACTION TIMER SERVICE FOR CLIENT MESSAGES AND RESPONSES

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APAR status

• Closed as new function.

Error description

• This APAR will provide a server-side transaction timer service
  for client messages and responses.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All Users of IMS Connect Extensions V2.1.    *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: This APAR will provide a server-side    *
  *                      transaction timer service for client    *
  *                      messages and responses.                 *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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  This APAR is adding the following new function:
  The Transaction Timer feature allows time-out values to be
  specified for a transaction and any associated acknowledgements.
  This APAR also includes a number of additional product fixes:
  1. Fix abend S0C4 in Exit Router (CEXEXRTR) when using SSL
  ports with statistics collection active.
  2. Fix abend S0C4 in Batch Take-up Utility (CEXBDST0) when
  message exit not present in the standard list.
  3. Fix statistics column overflow problem in Status Monitor
  to show nnnK or nnnM as appropriate.
  4. Change batch utilities to support 45 byte DNS names.
  5. Fix incorrect display of interval start time in Status
  Monitor when interval not yet active.
  6. Fix user message exit INIT failure in IMS Connect when
  exit has been disabled due to an initialization error in
  Message Translation.
  7. Fix incorrect editing of hex values in Batch Maintenance
  Utility and Installation Verification Program (IVP).
  8. Issue more informative message when Unicode Services
  callable service routine not found: new error messages
  CEX5083 and CEX5564.
  9. Fix truncation error in message CEX5063.
  10. Issue warning message when selecting Status Monitor or
  Active Sessions for an inactive system.
  11. Change Batch Take-up Utility to ensure that an exit
  definition is always generated for service exit CEXSVC01.
  12. Change TCP/IP error message CEX5401E to include USS reason
  code and add two new error messages CEX5408E and CEX5409E.
  13. Change session wait time filter in Active Session to allow
  specification of days: new format filter ddd-hh.mm.ss.thmiju.
  

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is adding the following new function:
  The transaction timer feature allows time-out values to be
  specified for a transaction and any associated acknowledgements.
  These values may be specified and activated in the
  IMS Connect Extensions transaction definition.
  Time-out values are specified in IRM_TIMER format
  as documented in the IMS Connect Guide and Reference:
  Hex Value Description
  00        (default)
  E9        (no timer)
  FF        (wait indefinitely)
  01-27     (.nn second)
  28-63     (nn seconds)
  63-9E     (nn minutes)
  To activate this feature, a transaction should be
  defined and populated with appropriate time-out values.
  Refer to the IMS Connect Extensions Guide for a description
  of how to define a transaction.
  The following Dialog and the Batch Utilities have been
  changed to support this new feature:
  a. The Dialog transaction definition panel CEXDFTXN and
     associated help panels.  The following new fields have
     been added to the panel:
  / Activate Transaction Timer Message timeout . 19 (.25 second)
                         ACK/NAK timeout . 28  (1 second)
  b. The Batch Definition Maintenance Utility CEXDFDSI.
     The following new parameters have been added to the
     transaction definition statement:
                                               +-,REPLACE=NO--+
  --DEFN=(TXN,name)--+--------------------+--+--------------+--->
                     +- ,DESC-"description"-+  +-,REPLACE=YES-+
    +-,TRANSACTION_TIMER=(+-INACTIVE-+,+-,MSGTO=xx,ACKTO=xx)
  -+---------------------+----------+-+-------------------------->
                         +-ACTIVE---+
  c. The Batch Definition Extract Utility CEXDFDSO.  This
     utility has been changed to support the new transaction
     definition parameters.
  This APAR has also corrected the additional problems that were
  mentioned above.
  

APAR Information

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

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

  UK32367

Modules/Macros

• CEX#TXTT CEXBDDSG CEXBDSI0 CEXBDSI1 CEXBDSO0
  CEXBDST0 CEXCERE  CEXCMDT  CEXCOMM  CEXCONS  CEXCONSS CEXCRPF
  CEXCR62  CEXCR88  CEXDFDRV CEXEXRTR CEXE08   CEXG00   CEXIVPR1
  CEXIVP01 CEXLGDRV CEXMAIN  CEXMSGCM CEXMSGL  CEXMSGT  CEXOPDRV
  CEXPRED1 CEXPRSR  CEXPUDRV CEXRHWS  CEXR159  CEXSHELL CEXTPLST
  CEXTRDEP CEXUNISR CEXX00
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  IMS CONNECT EXT

• Fixed component ID

  5655K4800

Applicable component levels

• R210 PSY UK32367

     UP07/12/19 P F712

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