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IV85559: REGION CRASHES AS CICSAM PROCESS FAILS TO CREATE CICSAS PROCESS

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APAR status

  • Closed as program error.

Error description

  • REGION CRASHES AS CICSAM PROCESS FAILS TO CREATE CICSAS PROCESS
    

Local fix

  • n/a
    

Problem summary

  • When CICS Application Manager (CICSAM) process tries to create
    CICS Application Server (CICSAS) process, it fails randomly with
     the messages as shown below and region terminates abnormally.
    
    Messages in console file:
    
    ERZ057023I/0033 06/13/16 17:36:26.091687000 CHTEST   16960/3404
    : Transaction '????' timed out on terminal '????' due to a
    prolonged transient error condition
    ERZ010121E/0264 06/13/16 17:36:26.731182000 CHTEST   16960/3404
    : Unable to perform operation due to a transient error
    ERZ010003I/0094 06/13/16 17:36:26.736534000 CHTEST   16960/3404
    : CICS is performing region abnormal termination in process
    'cicsam'
    
    
    Messages in symrecs file:
    
    SYMPTOMS = TIME/"06/13/16 17:36:26.091420000" REGION/CHTEST
    PROD/5724LX600 LVLS/810 MOD/"@(#)conco, 19:30:37, Dec 17 2015"
    FUNC/bde_StartOSProcess LINE/1217 MS/000000 MSN/264 SRC/11
    PRCS/1886109734 ABCODE/ SRVID/5 PID/16960 TID/3404 PROC/cicsam
    SECONDARY SYMPTOMS = bde_StartOSProcess returned transient
    error. Retrying 1 of 1
    
    SYMPTOMS = TIME/"06/13/16 17:36:26.731012000" REGION/CHTEST
    PROD/5724LX600 LVLS/810 MOD/"@(#)conco, 19:30:37, Dec 17 2015"
    FUNC/ConCO_CreateProcess LINE/1217 MS/010121 MSN/264 SRC/2
    PRCS/1886109734 ABCODE/AKCS SRVID/5 PID/16960 TID/3404
    PROC/cicsam
    SECONDARY SYMPTOMS = 2 Transient errors from bde_StartOSProcess
    

Problem conclusion

  • This issue is fixed by correcting the code used for creating
    CICS processes.
    This fix is applicable for TXSeries runnning on Linux platform
    (RHEL/SLES) only.
    

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

  • APAR number

    IV85559

  • Reported component name

    TXSERIES LIN CI

  • Reported component ID

    5724LX800

  • Reported release

    810

  • Status

    CLOSED PER

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Special Attention

    NoSpecatt / Xsystem

  • Submitted date

    2016-06-09

  • Closed date

    2017-02-21

  • Last modified date

    2017-02-21

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

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

    IJ05101

Fix information

  • Fixed component name

    TXSERIES LIN CI

  • Fixed component ID

    5724LX800

Applicable component levels

[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SSGMGV","label":"CICS Transaction Server"},"Component":"","ARM Category":[],"Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"8.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB35","label":"Mainframe SW"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
10 March 2021