PH37201: MANAGEMENT OF GUARDIUM INTERNAL STORAGE MANAGER ROUTINES

Obtain the fix for this APAR.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Clean potential stale pointers to certain freed/reused ECSA
  routines to prevent ABEND 0C4 and/or MISMATCHes at startup.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of IBM Security Guardium S-TAP for     *
  *                 Db2 on z/OS                                  *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Clean potential stale pointers to       *
  *                      certain freed/reused ECSA routines.     *
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  * RECOMMENDATION: Apply the PTF.                               *
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  When Guardium S-TAP is recycled there are stale pointers to the
  freed/reused ECSA routines which did not exist and caused wild
  branches into unknown code.
  

Problem conclusion

• Logic was changed to update S-TAP internal storage manager
  routines to handle the ECSA based module pointers correctly.
  

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:

  UI76416 UI76418

Modules/Macros

• ADH#INIZ ADH#PARZ ADH#PCIZ ADHGGIFC ADHGSTRS ADHGUARZ ADHPSIFC
  ADHPSINF ADHPSTAP
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SEC GUAR STAP D

• Fixed component ID

  5655STP00

Applicable component levels

• RA13 PSY UI76418

     UP21/07/24 P F107

• RB30 PSY UI76416

     UP21/07/27 P F107

Fix is available

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