PI27124: ABEND0C4 CEXTECL AFTER CONVERTER ERROR.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• This APAR addresses the following issues:
  1. If a DRDA port is dynamically added Rules based routing for
    ODBM can fail because the newly added port was placed in the
    wrong list of port types. The event records for the routing
    exit shows that CEX routing was not done and that the request
    was returned to ICON for the default routing action.
  2. An ABEND0C4 can occur in module CEXTECL if an input message
    from the Soap Gateway fails to be converted due to a converter
    error. The input message payload must be larger than 64K for
    the abend to occur. The abend may be preceded by ICON message
    HWSA0345E ADAPTER HWSXMLA0 ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR: R=???
  3. An ABEND0C4 can occur in module CEXEXRTR if there are no ICON
    datastores defined and CEX security checking is active. The
    abend requires that CEX security checking be active and that
    CEX find the associated ICON datastore to see if it has an
    Application name associated with the datastore. Since no
    datastores are defined, the datastore lookup routine can
    eventually ABENDS0C4 trying to find the CEX datastore entry.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of IMS Connect Extensions V2.3         *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: ABEND0C4 CEXTECL AFTER CONVERTER ERROR. *
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  This APAR addresses the following issues:
  1.If an DRDA port is dynamically added Rules based routing for
  ODBM can fail because the newly added port was placed in the
  wrong list of port types. The event records for the routing
  exit shows that CEX routing was not done and that the request
  was returned to ICON for the default routing action.
  2.An ABEND0C4 can occur in module CEXTECL if an input message
  from the Soap Gateway fails to be converted due to a converter
  error. The input message payload must be larger than 64K for
  the abend to occur. The abend may be preceded by ICON message
  HWSA0345E ADAPTER HWSXMLA0 ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR: R=???
  3.An ABEND0C4 can occur in module CEXEXRTR if there are no ICON
  datastores defined and CEX security checking is active. The
  abend requires that CEX security checking be active and that
  CEX find the associated ICON datastore to see if it has an
  Application name associated with the datastore. Since no
  datastores are defined, the datastore lookup routine can
  eventually ABENDS0C4 trying to find the CEX datastore entry.
  

Problem conclusion

• 1.The code that processes the dynamic addition of a TCPIP or
  DRDA port has been updated to correctly identify the port
  type and add it to the proper list.
  2.The IRM trace code x'A4' in module CEXTECL has been updated to
  recognize that the routine has been called after a failure of
  the XML converter process and to do additional sanity checking
  of the format of the application payload when it is called.
  3.The datastore lookup routine in the exit router has been
  changed to correctly recognize that no ICON datastores are
  defined and and return this information to the CEX security
  routines.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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

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

  UI24546

Modules/Macros

• CEXEVTSR CEXEXRTR CEXTECL
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  IMS CONNECT EXT

• Fixed component ID

  5655K4800

Applicable component levels

• R230 PSY UI24546

     UP15/01/27 P F501

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