PTF JN00615 for Expedite/CICS for MVS 4.5

Date posted: 27 June 2003

Customers affected:  All Information Exchange users using Expedite^TM/CICS^R
for MVS^TM

This Technical Bulletin contains information for a program temporary fix (PTF) JN00615 for Expedite/CICS for MVS 4.5. This PTF is planned for availability on June 27, 2003. Expedite/CICS for MVS 4.5 is supported on OS/390(R) V2.10.

PTF JN00615 for Expedite/CICS for MVS 4.5
The receive Common Data Header (CDH) records were being prematurely deleted, resulting in a Not Found condition when trying to read the information to pass to the user information exit.

Customer was experiencing an HI909 error on a RECEIVE that resulted from data for one message coming in on more than one task from Information Exchange. The RECEIVE
data (RD) records were being written to the EXPRDAT file with different keys, resulting in program EXPOIRM3 getting a Not Found error when reading with the key that should have
been written.

A code change now allows the use of a 4-byte qualifier when sending EDIFACT data.

The batch send monitor would stop inappropriately, thinking another batch send monitor was already running. This was due to a time difference at the millisecond level between the time when the send batch monitor actually did run and when it should have run.

Operating System Support Update

Expedite/CICS for MVS 4.5 will be supported on the following software environment:

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