Expedite Program Operating System Support Update

Date posted: 28 January 2002

Customers Affected: All Information Exchange customers using Expedite(TM) Base/MVS(TM) 4.5 and Expedite Base/400 4.5 licensed programs.

This Technical Bulletin contains information regarding a program temporary fix (PTF) JN00613 for Expedite Base/MVS 4.5, and updated information regarding the operating system release platforms for the selected Expedite products highlighted in this document.

Expedite Base/MVS 4.5 -- PTF JN00613

PTF JN00613 for Expedite Base/MVS 4.5 will be available on or after July 13, 2001. This PTF is tested on both OS/390(R) 2.7 and OS/390 2.10 and contains the following program fixes:

• If the LINK parameter value is set to "N" when using systems network architecture (SNA) communication, the Link trace will no longer be generated.
• An OC4 ABnormal END was fixed to correct when a null character appeared in the QUALTBL entry and the IOFILE value was set to "Y" on the Trace command.
• When a D37 (out of space) condition occurs on the close of the received data file during Session Level Recovery, the session will be terminated abnormally, and the file residing in Information Exchange will be kept for a second receive.
• Expedite Base/MVS was corrected to freepool the buffers associated with a partition data set (PDS), because the program would sometimes ABnormalEND with an 878 ABnormalEND code after the number of open PDSs caused the region size to be exceeded.
• Users in the United States may
Contact Us to obtain PTF JN00613.

Expedite Base/MVS 4.5 -- Operating System Support Update

Expedite Base/MVS 4.5 is supported on OS/390 2.10. No program update is necessary for this support. Expedite Base/MVS 4.5 is supported on the following operating system releases:

• OS/390 2.6
• OS/390 2.7
• OS/390 2.10 (newly added)

Expedite Base/400 4.5.1 -- Operating System Support Update

A new maintenance release of Expedite Base/400 4.5.1 is supported on OS/400(R) 4.5 and will be available on or after August 17, 2001. Users who need to run Expedite Base/400 on OS/400 4.5 are required to replace their prior release of Expedite Base/400 with the new maintenance release by downloading from the following area.

United States users experiencing difficulty while downloading Expedite Base/400 4.5.1 from the Web site can Contact Us. Users can obtain additional information by clicking on "Expedite family" in the products and services section.

MVS is a trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.

OS/390 and OS/400 are registered trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.