PH40867: 0C4/AKEA IN DFHPGIS + X'EBA' FOLLOWED BY THE ---/0999 IN DFHKERRI.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• CICS is being brought down after a given transaction has been
  doing a PURGE every now and again and some of those PURGE
  operations have caused entry to the recovery routine of DFHPGIS
  more than a specified number of times.
  

Local fix

• N/A
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All CICS users.                              *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: After a number of failed attempts to    *
  *                      PURGE tasks, CICS is self-terminating,  *
  *                      dumping with abend 0999 in DFHKERRI and *
  *                      writing message DFHKE0303 indicating    *
  *                      that a recursive abend has been         *
  *                      detected by the kernel domain.          *
  ****************************************************************
  After a number of failed attempts to PURGE tasks (not
  necessarily the same task), CICS is self-terminating, by design,
  as CICS incorrectly determines that it is looping in the
  recovery routine of DFHPGIS.
  
  The message +DFHKE0303 "A RECURSIVE ABEND HAS BEEN DETECTED BY
  THE KERNEL DOMAIN." is seen in the job log and the created dump
  will indicate a number of 0C4 abends in DFHPGIS (not necessarily
  at the same time) eventually leading to an abend 0999 in module
  DFHKERRI just before self-termination.
  

Problem conclusion

• CICS has been updated so that a failure to PURGE a task does not
  lead CICS to believe that it is potentially looping in recovery
  and, therefore, it no longer self-terminates with an abend 0999.
  

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:

  UI78854 UI78855 UI78856

Modules/Macros

• DFHPGIS
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  CICS TS Z/OS V5

• Fixed component ID

  5655Y0400

Applicable component levels

• R100 PSY UI78856

     UP22/01/12 P F201 ¢

• R200 PSY UI78855

     UP22/01/12 P F201 ¢

• R300 PSY UI78854

     UP22/01/12 P F201 ¢

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