Problem

When using CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) for connection between server and host the signon to CICS may fail because of user ID and/or password defined in the ASF web client being incorrect. The failure to sign on is accompanied by the following error messages/symptom strings: 1. Windows as server platform (Note: userID/password verification by RACF requires the CTG connection to have been defined with ATTACHSEC=VERIFY.) DOC1116E The session could not be started. The explicit signon on the host for user ID xxx failed (com.ibm.doc.proxy.DocASFNoConnectionException: An CICS error occurred : Return Code ECI_ERR_NO_CICS Abend code AZI4) CICS Client Messages: CCL3288E Errors occured while communicating with a server using protocol driver " " CCL2006I Refer to the client error log for more details CCL2005I The client will continue Log entry: 01/20/04 15:06:36.296 [5894] DRV:CCL5815 TCP62: Session 022c-ASF33DB2 MPTNCONN rejected, Rc=0007,0000, sense data=08570003 01/20/04 15:07:36.328 [5894] DRV:CCL5815 TCP62: Session 023c-ASF33DB2 MPTNCONN rejected, Rc=0007,0000, sense data=08570003 01/20/04 15:07:57.343 [7405] CCL:CCL3315 Unexpected comms error (internal return codes 3288 , 4098) 2. z/OS as server platform (Note: userID/password verification by RACF requires the environment variable AUTH_USERID_PASSWORD having been set to YES.) DOC1116E The session could not be started. The explicit signon on the host for user ID xxx failed (com.ibm.doc.proxy.DocASFNoConnectionException: An CICS error occurred : Return Code ECI_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR Abend code null) or DOC1116E The session could not be started. The explicit signon on the host for user ID {0} failed. (com.ibm.doc.proxy.DocASFNoConnectionException: An CICS error occurred : Return Code ECI_ERR_SECURITY_ERROR Abend code null)