PI40166: DFHAM4917 W URIMAP WAS INSTALLED WITH A REDUCED SET OF CIPHER CODES AT CICS START-UP

APAR status

• Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

• The message 'DFHAM4917 W Applid URIMAP mapname WAS INSTALLED
  WITH A REDUCED SET OF CIPHER CODES received upon region
  start-up.  Region startup is INITIAL.  The URIMAPS are the same
  among the regions but the DFHAM4917 is only issued in some of
  the regions.   If the customer copies the URIMAP  and installs
  it  with another resource name in one of the regions, the
  DFHAM4917W message is not received.
  The trace shows:
  .
  WB 0901 WBUR  EXIT - FUNCTION(ADD_REPLACE_URIMAP)
  RESPONSE(EXCEPTION) REASON(CIPHER_LIST_REDUCED) HOST(2B9F4DAB ,
  00000001 ,  00000001) PATH(2B9F4E1F , 0000000B , 0000000B)
  DUPLICATE_URIMAP() CERTIFICATE_STATUS()
  .
  The URIMAPs were of type SERVER and did not have a cipher list
  specified.    The unwanted messages are caused by DFHWBUR
  checking a flag which has not been initialized.
  .
  Additional Symptom(s) Search Keyword(s): KIXREVGJT
  DFHAM4917W MSGDFHAM4917 MSGDFHAM4917W
  .
  

Local fix

• Copy the urimap and install with another name.
  Message is only informational and does not cause further
  problems.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users                               *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Warning message DFHAM4917 issued when   *
  *                      installing a URIMAP without the CIPHERS *
  *                      attribute.                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  A URIMAP is installed without a value specified for the CIPHERS
  attribute. DFHWBUR is called to create the URIMAP resource. At
  the end of the call to DFHWBUR a test is made to determine if
  any ciphers have been removed from the list supplied in the
  CIPHERS attribute. This test is being made using a potentially
  uninitialised variable which may cause message DFHAM4917 to be
  issued invalidly.
  
  Additional keywords: msgDFHAM4917
  

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is being closed FIN with concurrence from the
  submitting customer.  This means that a fix to this APAR is
  expected to be delivered from IBM in a release which is being
  developed at the time that the APAR was closed.
  The latest release of the product to exit development at the
  time this APAR was closed was:
    CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.2.
  HER103695 HER 103695
  

APAR Information

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

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

Fix information

Applicable component levels

• R900 PSN

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