PK24065: STATE DATA NOT FOUND FOR HANDLE 00000000

APAR status

• Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

• Due a difference in the way the supplied analyzer DFH$WBSA works
  when migrating off CICS TS 1.3, users at CICS TS 3.1 may begin
  to see the following message being produced from DFH$WBST
  .
  State data could not be found for the handle supplied (00000000)
  .
  This is due to a difference in DFH$WBSA. In CICS TS 1.3,
  DFH$WBSA had no escape logic and would detect that there was no
  data following the ? in the URL, so it would leave
  WBRA_USER_TOKEN set to nulls which would prevent DFH$WBST from
  being called.
  

Local fix

• The behavior of CICS TS 3.1 can be restored to that of CICS TS
  1.3 by adding the following 2 lines to DFH$WBSA :-
  .
  LTR   R4,R4                 Any resource left ?       @BA9472S
  71600000
  BZ    GOSIGNON              ..no, go schedule a signon@BA9472S
  72300000
  .
  This causes a ? followed by no data to be ignored.
  .
  Keywords:  kixdcfcic640
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All.                                         *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: CICS can issued message 'State data     *
  *                      could not be found for the handle       *
  *                      supplied (00000000)'.                   *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
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  A CICS region with security is active and is using the sample
  analyze program DFH$WBSA. A URL is entered from a browser with
  no user data following the ?. As a result, message 'State data
  manager DFH$WBST initialized', followed by message 'State
  data could not be found for the handle supplied (00000000)' may
  be issued.
  This is because if there is no data following the ? variable
  WBRA_USER_TOKEN is not set to nulls which results in DFH$WBST
  being called to retrieve state data which does not exist.
  

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is being closed FIN with concurrence from the
  submitting customer.  This means that a fix to this APAR is
  expected to be delivered from IBM in a release which is being
  developed at the time that the APAR was closed.
  
  The latest release of the product to exit development at the
  time this APAR was closed was:
  
    CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1
  CER15870  CER 15870
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

Applicable component levels

• R400 PSN

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