Here is the March list of New & Updated Gen Knowledge Base Articles (March 1 - 31, 2025, US EDT).
PLEASE NOTE:
The full list of KB articles can be found on the Gen Product page: https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdetails?productName=Gen
Scroll down to "Knowledge Base Articles" and use "Browse All". Change the default "Sort By Relevance" to "Sort By Created Date". Also at the bottom of the page, you can increase the default value of 10 for "Results per page".
Another thing to note is there is now a "facet" name "Gen" which covers all 4 Gen product names: Gen, Gen - Host Encyclopedia, Gen - Run Time Distributed, Gen - Workstation Toolset.
When the above article search results are initially displayed the Product is filtered on the facet Gen but only with the product name Gen i.e.
Use X on the first "Gen" (facet name) to clear the Product filter and then from left-hand Product list select Gen (facet name):
That results in the following new Product filter which shows all articles that contain any of the 4 Gen product names:
A Gen 8.6 .NET proxy test harness application connects to the related CICS server via Multi Sockets Listener TISRVMSL (TIML). In development environments there is no RACF checking for the load module to execute. The test regions are configured for ....,One of the Distributed Processing user exits needs to be used. On page User Exits in Distributed Processing under "C - ASP.NET Client and .NET Proxy Runtime" is: CFBDynamicMessageSecurityExit.cs That user exit is located under Gen 8.6 installation di....
While configuring the CSE on Linux targeting Oracle running the cse_config script from the cse/bin folder, encountering the error: ORA-12547: TNS: lost contact Can connect to the database using sqlplus with same userid/password from outside the confi....,The following will force the cse_config to use the Oracle TNS Listener to connect to the database. When prompted for 'Database Name' continue to enter '' but when prompted for 'Database User' enter as follows: Encyclopedia Database Use....
Application moved from being statically packaged to dynamically packaged. Changed the model Business System generation defaults to be dynamically packaged, but when generating the Derivation Action Blocks, they continued to generated as statically p....,Users can manually change the Dynamic Link option for all the Derivation Action Blocks affected to 'YES'. Alternatively, if the model(s) contain many of these Action Blocks and manually changing the Dynamic Link option would be time consuming, pleas....
When using the Gen Workstation Toolset or one of the Client/Server Encyclopedias to generate COBOL code for remote installation on the z/OS platform, the path to the model directory should not exceed 51 characters. This 51 character limit includes t....,Move the model to a folder with a shorter path.
Is it possible to trace the cause of Gen 8.6 GUI C client CALL EXTERNAL error: TIRM149E: Error occurred in CA Gen supplied function: TIRXCWS ,CALL EXTERNAL does not use a Gen cooperative flow like calling the EJB Web Service does using commcfg.ini file WS protocol, so enabling "CMIDEBUG ON" in that file will not create a trace file in directory "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\CA\Gen 8.6\logs\....
Planning to move Gen application developed for z/OS and COBOL / DB2 to Windows .NET / Oracle (C /Oracle for batch programs). One of the first questions is CHAR vs VARCHAR2 columns in Oracle and how Gen will generate code for them. Most of the model t....,To assist with a mass CHAR to VARCHAR2 conversion, there is a "To VARCHAR2" feature that enables quick conversion of all CHAR format attributes to VARCHAR2. See Edit in Data Structure List. Gen Engineering researched the impact on code generation. Th....
This hub article references documentation pages and available articles related to the newly released support of Gen 8.6 with the Liberty Application Server (Phase 1). Further articles will be added on an ongoing basis.,Table of Contents Documentation Knowledge Articles Documentation Gen 8.6 PTFs to support Liberty Application Server - Phase 1: Release Notes > New Features Liberty Application Server compatibility information: Technical Requirements > Third-Party Sof....
Referencing the new Gen 8.6 support for the Liberty Application Server. Per the Technical Requirements > Third-Party Software Version page and section Application Servers. It states that Gen 8.6 support for Open Liberty and WebSphere Liberty includes....,Per the section Compilers on the same doc. page only JDK versions 8 and 11 are listed and there is also this Note: So the support for Java JDK versions in the Build Tool is still limited to versions 8 and 11. Support for JDK versions 17 and 21 is pla....
How should the Gen 8.6 Build Tool profile JAVA tokens be set when using Java 11?,When using Java 11 the BT profile tokens for the JAVA section should be set as follows: LOC.JDK_HOME= LOC.JAVAEE_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\Gen86\Gen\classes\java11\modules\ (Assuming Gen is installed in def....
Checkout from Gen 8.6 Host Encyclopedia (HE) to Workstation Toolset fails with: Illegal overwrite of Encyclopedia association (o1 570:888, a 1235, 02 614:71648),The object types in the error relate to custom object types created under Window Design when Business System Custom video properties are created for Java Web Generation and assigned as the Video Properties of Window objects: Using the Toolset > Defau....
After applying Gen Multi-Socket Server Listener (TISRVMSL) PTF LU08295 see below error messages in Production & Test systems: CAS9012A 00006 Key warnings/violations on CPU 3F7A98 CAS9013A Product 4F about to expire or is expir....,The PTF SO15047 that fixes a similar error in this article CAS9013A license expire product 4F (Gen TCP/IP Direct Connect) is a pre-requisite for the PTF LU08295 installed in this scenario. New LMP keys expiring in 2028 including for 4F had been previ....
Background Installation or Foreground installation of Gen 8.6 model will fail when it is compiled with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Version 6.3.0 P220314 with the compiler option TEST(SOURCE) Compilation errors will be seen in the SYSPRINT output of....,Apply the fix from IBM APAR PH48095. Please refer to the following link for more details: PH48095: COMPILER IGNORES THE ALTERNATE DDNAME LIST AND ONLY READS SOURCE FROM THE SYSIN DD WHEN THE TEST COMPILER OPTION IS USED
Gen 8.6 Linux/Oracle CSE Java Proxy generation fails with: CSEXI0099E Generation has failed CSE Error Messages > CSEXI0099 Checking iefmd.log file shows the proxy generator encypyg is not getting invoked with its full PATH: ERROR: Problem invoking '....,Normally if starting the CSE manually, the directory /opt/Gen/CSE/cse/bin is already in the PATH from invoking script /opt/Gen/CSE/cse/cfg/cse.sh to up the environment and this problem would not be exposed. In this scenario the iefmd was being automa....
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Lynn Williams
Senior Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom Software
Australia
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