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PTF JN00617 is available for Expedite/CICS 4.5

Date posted: 26 July 2004

Customers affected: All Information Exchange customers using Expedite/CICS 4.5 for MVS (OS/390 and z/OS platforms). The information in this technical bulletin should be read by Expedite/CICS customers who plan to upgrade their present version of Expedite/CICS with the latest PTF.

Availability: This PTF is planned for availability on July 30, 2004.

 Overview

 

This Technical Bulletin describes program temporary fix (PTF) JN00617 for Expedite/CICS TCP/IP users who could not receive data or certain command responses, and whose sessions sometimes abended with timeout abends. This PTF also fixes a problem that occurred with the User Information Exit, which deals with the formatting of EDI control numbers.

 

Description

 

Expedite/CICS TCP/IP customers could not receive data, command responses hung in their system, and timeout abends occurred. Two Expedite/CICS programs were sending in a x'F0' instead of a x'00' for the line turnaround flag, and they were incorrectly handling the receiving of TCP/IP data, if data came in on multiple IP packets.

Customers using the Expedite/CICS User Information Exit with EDI data were encountering problems with the user information exit control number. If the user information exit control number contained alphabetic characters, the alphabetic characters were removed, and the fields were right-justified and padded with leading zeros. Two Expedite/CICS programs were changed to edit the user information exit control number, so that, for EDIFACT and UN/TDI data, the field contents are right-justifed and padded with leading zeros. The alphabetic characters were not removed. No changes were made for X12 and UCS data because the control number field for those two data types is numeric only.

Note: If the Information Exchange Common Front End in your region has not installed PTF FE11147, you may still have difficulty receiving files. Contact your local Help Desk for assistance.

New Customers

If you are a new customer, install the base tape following the instructions in the Program Directory. After successfully installing the base product, apply the PTF tape following the PTF installation instructions in the Program Directory. During the PTF installation, the sample job EXPTFCSD was added to your Expedite/CICS sample job library XXXXXXXX.SEXPSAMP, where XXXXXXXX represents the high level qualifier that you used when you installed Expedite/CICS 4.5.0 for use with OS/390 and z/OS. Execute sample job EXPTFCSD following the instructions in the job to make the necessary definition change to program EXPOMSG1.

Customers Upgrading to Expedite/CICS 4.5.0

If you are a customer upgrading to Expedite/CICS 4.5.0, install the base tape following the instructions in the Program Directory. After successfully installing the base product, apply the PTF tape following the PTF installation instructions in the Program Directory. During the PTF installation, the sample job EXPTFCSD was added to your Expedite/CICS sample job library XXXXXXXX.SEXPSAMP, where XXXXXXXX represents the high level qualifier that you used when you installed Expedite/CICS 4.5.0 for use with OS/390 and z/OS. Execute sample job EXPTFCSD following the instructions in the job to make the necessary definition change to program EXPOMSG1.

Customers Requiring Only the PTF

If you are a customer currently at the Expedite/CICS 4.5.0 level and only want to apply the PTF, disregard the product tape and apply the PTF following the PTF installation instructions in the Program Directory. During the PTF installation, the sample job EXPTFCSD was added to your Expedite/CICS sample job library XXXXXXXX.SEXPSAMP, where XXXXXXXX represents the high level qualifier that you used when you installed Expedite/CICS 4.5.0 for use with OS/390 and z/OS. Execute sample job EXPTFCSD following the instructions in the job to make the necessary definition change to program EXPOMSG1.

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