PH60635: IDZ 16.0.2 RSE'S FEKATTR MAY REPORT MODIFICATION CENTURY INCORRECTLY.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• IBM Developer for z Systems - IDz - v16.0.2
  RSE's FEKATTR may report modification century incorrectly.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: 1. All users                                 *
  *                 2. All users                                 *
  *                 3. All users                                 *
  *                 4. All users                                 *
  *                 5. sysprog                                   *
  *                 6. IBM support                               *
  *                 7. All users that run UNIX commands          *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: 1. Using RSE remote system properties   *
  *                      for a dataset member with a creation    *
  *                      date in 19th century and a              *
  *                      modification date in 20th century       *
  *                      would display incorrectly the           *
  *                      modification date as in 19th.           *
  *                      2. After a user has renamed a member    *
  *                      of a PDS alias, he/she cannot edit      *
  *                      the member as it says it is locked.     *
  *                      3. To validate a JCL content, client    *
  *                      need to detect if dataset device type   *
  *                      reference in the JCL is not on tape.    *
  *                      4. RSE and RSEAPI support for Java 11   *
  *                      is from 11.0.17 due to the JDK issues   *
  *                      that affect the applications.           *
  *                      Server startup with Java 11 lower       *
  *                      than the minimum required would be      *
  *                      successful but operations related to    *
  *                      the JDK's known issue would failed,     *
  *                      which may result lengthy effort to      *
  *                      trouble shoot the issue seen by         *
  *                      application.                            *
  *                      5. Startup script errors when using     *
  *                      non-English shell environment           *
  *                      6. Enhancement to allow plugins to      *
  *                      specify severity for directories        *
  *                      mounted with NOSETUID                   *
  *                      7. In previous releases, the current    *
  *                      working directory (".") was             *
  *                      automatically added to the PATH for     *
  *                      convenience, when running UNIX shell    *
  *                      commands but that was removed.          *
  ****************************************************************
  1. RSE FEKATTR module incorrectly parses the century of a
  dataset member modification date information obtained from the
  z/OS system.
  2. The renaming of a member under an alias leaves an exclusive
  lock on the old member resource (under the alias) and the new
  member resource (under the reference). That causes a locked
  state of the member preventing users from editing it
  unexpectedly.
  During the rename, a lock on the resource
  <alias(old_member_name)> and <reference(new_member_name)> are
  created. When the rename is done, the two locks are supposed
  to be released, but wrong pds name is used in the resources
  construction to unlock.
  3. For the JCL validate purpose, host needs to provide a new
  command to discover the device type of a datataset. In
  addition to that, also detect if the dataset is archived or not.
  Only dataset that is active (not archived) and residing on
  DASD device is to be returned as valid type..
  4. Server startup for the application should validate on the
  minimum Java 11 version at patch level to avoid starting up at
  non-supported Java 11 version level to avoid spending extra
  effort in trouble shooting issues that is related to the
  mentioned JDK issues
  5. Startup script errors when using non-English shell
  environment
  e.g.
  @=/usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/bin/envvars.sh: /tmp/rsed.sh.50331783 1: .
  : _Init 76: /usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/bin/rsed.sh 549: FSUM7351 not
  found
  -- ERROR -- version_track not defined in
  /usr/lpp/IBM/zexpl/bin/plugin.conf
  6. Enhancement to allow plugins to specify severity for
  directories mounted with NOSETUID. When the NOSETUID flag is
  set, APF and program control flags of files in that file
  system are not honored.
  7. In previous releases, the current working directory (".")
  was automatically added to the PATH for convenience, when
  running UNIX shell commands but that was removed.
  

Problem conclusion

• 1. Have FEKATTR correct the parsing for the modification
  date's century of dataset members.
  2. Now for lock and lock member command, it will use the
  reference name (as other supported operations) for the
  resource preparation, correcting the resource mismatch from
  lock and unlock.
  3. Host now offers a new command C_QUERY_DATASET_DEVTYPE to
  query dataset device type and archived status from catalog to
  determine if the dataset is on tape and archived or not.
  Note: The support is only for cataloged dataset and archived
  volser with common name tag MIGRAT and ARCIVE.
  4. Validation for Java 11 minimum version is added during
  server startup.
  5. Do not allow customers to change LANG or LC_ALL environment
  variables
  6. Enhancement provided
  7. The inclusion of "." in the PATH will be added back.
  

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:

  UI97198

Modules/Macros

• FEJENF70 FEJJCNFG FEJJJCL  FEJJMON  FEJTSO   FEK1SMPE FEK2RCVE
  FEK3ALOC FEK4ZFS  FEK5MKD  FEK6DDEF FEK7APLY FEK8ACPT FEK@CERR
  FEK@CONE FEK@CONF FEK@CUST FEK@DEB  FEK@DESC FEK@FLOW FEK@GEN
  FEK@GENW FEK@ISPF FEK@IVP  FEK@IVPD FEK@IVPW FEK@JCN1 FEK@JCNE
  FEK@JESJ FEK@MAIN FEK@MIGO FEK@OPTE FEK@OPTG FEK@OPTN FEK@PRIM
  FEK@RSE1 FEK@RSEO FEK@STRT FEK@TAB1 FEK@TAB2 FEK@TAB3 FEK@WRK1
  FEK@WRK2 FEK@WRK3 FEK@WRK4 FEK@WRK5 FEKAPPCC FEKAPPCL FEKAPPCX
  FEKATTR  FEKDSI   FEKEESX0 FEKFASIZ FEKFATT1 FEKFBLD  FEKFCIPH
  FEKFCLIE FEKFCMOD FEKFCMPR FEKFCMSG FEKFCOMM FEKFCOPY FEKFCOR6
  FEKFCORE FEKFDBG  FEKFDBG6 FEKFDBGM FEKFDIR  FEKFDIR6 FEKFDIVP
  FEKFDST0 FEKFDST1 FEKFDST2 FEKFENVF FEKFENVI FEKFENVP FEKFENVR
  FEKFENVS FEKFEPL  FEKFERRF FEKFGDGE FEKFICUL FEKFISPF FEKFIVP0
  FEKFIVPA FEKFIVPD FEKFIVPI FEKFIVPJ FEKFIVPT FEKFJESM FEKFJESU
  FEKFJLIC FEKFJSON FEKFJVM  FEKFLATR FEKFLDSI FEKFLDSL FEKFLEOP
  FEKFLOGS FEKFLPTH FEKFMAI6 FEKFMAIN FEKFMINE FEKFMNTL FEKFNTCE
  FEKFOMVS FEKFPATT FEKFPKCS FEKFPLUG FEKFPTC  FEKFRIVP FEKFRMSG
  FEKFRSES FEKFRSRV FEKFSCMD FEKFSEND FEKFSSL  FEKFSTUP FEKFT000
  FEKFT002 FEKFT003 FEKFT004 FEKFT005 FEKFT006 FEKFT007 FEKFT008
  FEKFTEAM FEKFTIVP FEKFTSO  FEKFUTIL FEKFVERS FEKFXITA FEKFXITL
  FEKFZOS  FEKHCONF FEKHCUST FEKHDEB  FEKHDESC FEKHFLOW FEKHGEN
  FEKHISPF FEKHIVP  FEKHIVPD FEKHJESJ FEKHMAIN FEKHMIGO FEKHOPTE
  FEKHOPTN FEKHPRIM FEKHRSE1 FEKHRSEO FEKHSTRT FEKHTAB1 FEKHTAB2
  FEKINIT  FEKKEYS  FEKLOCKA FEKLOGR  FEKLOGS  FEKM00   FEKM01
  FEKM02   FEKMKDIR FEKMOUNT FEKMSGC  FEKMSGS  FEKPKCS1 FEKRACF
  FEKRSED  FEKSAPF  FEKSAPPL FEKSBPX  FEKSCLAS FEKSCLOG FEKSCMD
  FEKSCPYM FEKSCPYU FEKSDSN  FEKSENV  FEKSETUP FEKSISPF FEKSJCFG
  FEKSJCMD FEKSJMON FEKSJWT  FEKSJWTU FEKSLPA  FEKSPROG FEKSPTKT
  FEKSRSED FEKSSERV FEKSSTC  FEKSSU   FEKSUSER FEKXCFGE FEKXCFGI
  FEKXCFGM FEKXCFGT FEKXMAIN FEKXML   HUHFCOR6 HUHFCORE
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  EXP FOR Z/OS HO

• Fixed component ID

  5655EXP23

Applicable component levels

• R330 PSY UI97198

     UP24/06/15 P F406

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