Ongoing I will be posting a regular list of New & Updated Knowledge Base Articles for the past month and here is the first one for January 2019 which includes up to today February 8.
The full Knowledge Base Articles history can be found from the CA Gen Product Information page: CA Gen
KB000046709 | WHAT IS THE "CA GEN COMMUNICATION BASE MANAGER".
The Communications Base Manager is code that checks license keys when generating for Windows, EJB, EJB Web Services, Internet, Web View, and ASP.NET. u000aIts license key is 2G35 listed in the ca.olf file and can be found in the list of licensed products on the toolset. The license is automatically installed whenever any of the above generation options are licensed.
LAST UPDATE: 02/08/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124434 | CA GEN LOAD MODULE SUPPORT COMPLIANCE WITH MIX OF OLDER RELEASES
What needs to be done to make a load module compliant with CA Gen Support when it is mixed with older releases?u000av4.x & 5.xu0009'STERLING SOFTWARE' u000av6.5u0009 u0009'ADVANTAGE(TM) GEN 6.5'u000ar7.6u0009u0009u0009'ALLFUSION(R) GEN R7.6' u000ar8.0u0009u0009u0009'GEN R8'u000ar8.5u0009u0009u0009'CA GEN 8.5'u000au000aIf the load module works standalone, GREAT! If it calls or called by another module, then that opens up other scenarios. u000aSupport will help determine the problem should abends occur. However, no fixes are available for end-of-service releases.
LAST UPDATE: 02/08/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000123460 | CA GEN BATCH USER EXIT TIRRETCX NOT RETURNING ZERO RETURN CODE.
After making a change to CA Gen batch user exit TIRRETCX, installed using MKEXITS to compile and link as TIRRETCZ. The only change made was to set value of 0 to get a zero return code. However the batch job still gets a return code 1000. u000aNeeded to make other changes to the modules and add job step TIRIOVFI which calls TIRRETCZ to set the return code. The program defaults to RC=1000 for the last step.
LAST UPDATE: 02/08/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124030 | CA GEN HE PI "UNEXPECTED PAGE NUMBER" ERROR IN PIDATA TABLE
Gen Host Encyclopedia Public Interface database table PIDATA shows error:u000aDSN1984I DSN1COPY UNEXPECTED PAGE NUMBER, EXPECTING: 0002E477 FOUND: 0002E47Cu000aThe resolution of doing a RECOVER on the PIDATA tablespace and a REBUILD on its indexes was successful.
LAST UPDATE: 02/08/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000106904 | CA GEN DB2 UNIVERSAL TABLE SPACE SUPPORT
DB2 Universal Table Space support in CA Gen. To accommodate this standard the DBA Team is manually converting the tablespaces in the generated host encyclopedia (HE) DDL to UTS. u000aIs there a way to also have the tablespaces in the generated DDL be UTS so the DBAs don't need to do this manually?
LAST UPDATE: 02/08/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000126370 | GEN CALL EXTERNAL STATEMENT DISABLED IN TOOLSET
For Gen 8.5 or 8.6, trying to consume a web services in a Gen Action Diagram via the Call External statement. However, that command statement seems to be grayed out (disabled) in the Toolset.
LAST UPDATE: 02/07/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000030151 | USING THE COBOL 5.X OR COBOL 6.1 COMPILER WITH CA GEN
After upgrading to COBOL 5 (5.x) or 6 (6.1), CA Gen customers have experienced compile problems such as insufficient region. This document will discuss the PTFs and changes necessary to use COBOL 5.x or 6.1 as the CA Gen compiler.
LAST UPDATE: 02/07/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000126276 | CA GEN CALL EXTERNAL STATEMENT ERROR WHEN INPUT STRING FIELD CONTAINS A "&" CHARACTER
This article explains about the error of CALL This article explains about the error of the CA Gen CALL EXTERNAL statement when an input string field contains a "&" character. The fix should have been included in RTN86113 but is only included in RTN86120.
LAST UPDATE: 02/07/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000110651 | CA GEN 8.6 CLIENT MANAGER "FAILED TO LOAD DLL IEFCMN, REASON CODE 126"
Using own custom install shield to deploy the Client Manager into custom directory. The root cause was that iefcmn.ini file had incorrect full path for property MSGDLLNAME (default value is "C:Program Files (x86)CAGen86Gencommrtcmw32CMMSGENGn.dll")
LAST UPDATE: 01/28/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124950 | CA GEN ENCYCLOPEDIA - HOW CAN I VERIFY WHICH OPTIONS ARE INSTALLED?
How can it be determined if the following components are installed as part of the CA GEN Host Encyclopedia?u000au000aCA Gen Encyclopedia Cons. Environment Option for CICSu000aCA Gen Encyclopedia Construction Serveru000aCA Gen Encyclopedia Serveru000aCA Gen Implementation Toolset Option
LAST UPDATE: 01/23/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000125165 | CA GEN TRY TO IMPLEMENT THE AEFUF AS A SERVICE
try to implement the AEFUF as a service when the AEFAD runs on a different (unix) server. I’ve modified the regTE.cmd so it registeres only the AEFUFSRV and I can start the service but I can’t give him the ip and port from the aefad on the unix server.
LAST UPDATE: 01/23/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000125067 | CA GEN 8.6 REMOTE EJB EXECUTION WITH WILDFLY 10.1 & JBOSS EAP 7.1 AND "INITIAL FACTORY CLASS"
Although JBoss EAP uses the WildFly core it should be noted that WildFly 10.1 and JBoss EAP 7.1 use different values for "{Initial Factory Class}". WildFly 10.1 (WildFly Core 2.0.10.Final) still uses the older org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory but the later JBoss EAP 7.1 (WildFly Core 3.0.10.Final-redhat-1) uses the new org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyInitialContextFactory. org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory will still work short term with JBoss EAP 7.1 but is deprecated and server.log will show message "INFO [org.wildfly.naming] (com.ca.gen.smrt.ServletSession) WFNAM00025: org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory is deprecated; new applications should use org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyInitialContextFactory instead"
LAST UPDATE: 01/22/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124858 | CA GEN WEB CLIENT FAILS TO CALL GEN EJB UNDER JBOSS EAP 7.1 (EJBCLIENT000079) & WILDFLY 10.1 (EJBCLIENT000025)
The errors are due to using the standard syntax "*=EJBRMI" in the commcfg.properties file. u000aWhen calling an EJB under JBoss or Wildfly the EJBRMI reference for the transaction/trancode lookup must contain the ear file name i.e. "TRANCODE=EJBRMI J {EARFileName}" or "TRANCODE=EJBRMI W {EARFileName}. The ear file name value should not have the '.ear' extension included.
LAST UPDATE: 01/17/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124457 | CAN CA GEN HOST ENCYCLOPEDIA (HE) TABLE SPACES BE CONVERTED TO UNIVERSAL TABLE SPACES (UTS)
The Gen 8.x Host Encyclopedia has not been tested with UTS and it is therefore not supported. So although the change may not cause any negative impact if it is implemented then it would be at own risk.
LAST UPDATE: 01/16/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124386 | IS CA GEN HOST ENCYCLOPEDIA (HE) IMPACTED IF CHANGE DB2 RELATIVE BYTE ADDRESS (RBA) FROM 6 BYTES TO 10 BYTES
From v11 DB2 provides the ability to change the Relative Byte Address (RBA) from 6 bytes to 10 bytes. The CA Gen Host Encyclopedia has not been tested under DB2 running with an RBA of 10 bytes and it is therefore not supported. So although the change may not cause any negative impact if it is implemented then it would be at own risk.
LAST UPDATE: 01/16/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124419 | VISUAL STUDIO 2017 OPTIONS
When installing Visual Studio 2017 (VS2017) for use with CA Gen, what option need to be selected?
LAST UPDATE: 01/14/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124389 | CA GEN 8.6 WEB CLIENT ENCOUNTERS "JAVA.LANG.NOCLASSDEFFOUNDERROR: JAVAX/JMS/MESSAGE" ON EXECUTE (JBWEB004038) OR DEPLOYMENT (MSC000001) WITH JBOSS EAP 7.1 AND WILDFLY 10.1
The problem occurred when starting JBoss/WildFly Application Server using configuration file standalone.xml. After switching to using the configuration file standalone-full.xml the problem did not occur because standalone-full.xml provides the jms support.
LAST UPDATE: 01/14/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000122711 | COMPATIBILITY AND LIFECYCLE INFORMATION
Compatibility and Lifecycle Information for all Mainframe Products
LAST UPDATE: 01/09/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles
KB000124103 | CA GEN COMMS BRIDGE SHOWS ~5 SECOND LATENCY ON INITIAL CLIENT CONNECTION VIA F5 LOAD BALANCER
Our Comms Bridge servers in our pre-production environment is experiencing a strange 4.5second latency issue but only occurs when the receiving application (ComProxyBridge) communicates to CommsBridge via our F5 load balancer. When ComProxyBridge talks directly to the CommsBridge node a response is almost instantaneous.u000au000aIn addition, the latency only appears to occur during the initial establishment of the connection to the CommsBridge node as subsequent connections (via the F5) appear to return as expected. Once the entire connection is dropped from ComsProxyBridge it takes another 4.5secs to establish to CommsBridge (via F5).
LAST UPDATE: 01/07/2019 SIZE: 1 kb TYPE: Knowledge Base Articles