Here is the October list of New & Updated Gen Knowledge Base Articles (October 1 - 31, 2025, US EDT) starting from the end of the previous September list.
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:
Gen 8.6 online block mode transactions that are defined to use TSQ for the Profile Table may see a high usage of TSQs that are not cleaned up after the end-users logoff the CICS region. Can those TSQs be deleted?,Per doc. page Specify Target Environment for HE > Target Application Environment, a restartable application supports screen clear, other transaction execution, and using the RESTART command to return to the application. The Profile Table is needed fo....
Are there any SMF type records which can be turned on in order to gather Gen 8.6 SMF data for reporting purposes?,Gen does not create any SMF records from within the Development environment products Host Encyclopedia (HE), z/OS Implementation Toolset (IT) nor from within generated applications. The Gen products do call licensing routines in Common Services, an....
This article covers how to access Gen 8.6 software and PTFs for all operating system (OS) platforms plus some additional licensing information.,The following steps deliberately go via the Gen Product Home page where other useful information can be found. The other option for steps 2 & 3 is to use My Downloads from the main My Dashboard page and then search for "Gen" and select it (the end of....
Using Gen 8.6 Web Service Wizard on machine with Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019 installed. If select "Compile after generation?", the build fails +++ -- -- Results of Building Java Wrapper for ws1 -- 'nmake' is not recognized as an inter....,The nature of the error indicates there is a problem with the Visual Studio configuration because it cannot find the Visual Studio nmake.exe executable. The WSW build does not use BT tokens so it does not know which Visual Studio (VS) version is inst....
Upgrade from Gen 7.6 z/OS Implementation Toolset (IT) to Gen 8.6. One of the changes noticed between these versions was the distinction by the z/OS IT to place built LMs into segregated load libraries being for online & batch. In prior releases, all ....,What is being reported is working as designed. Gen has never placed Batch Manager Load Modules in the IT Batch Exec Lib dataset i.e. it has always placed these in the Exe Load Lib dataset used for online modules. The Batch Exec Lib was introduced in ....
Does Gen Inline Code feature perform reserved word or syntax checking for the designated programming language?,The Inline Code statement was designed to replace External Action Blocks (EABs) such that custom code could be integrated within model and hence never gets lost which is the potential problem with EABs. The Inline Code statement is free form user inp....
What is the complete list of z/OS SMP/E FMID values for Gen 8.6?,Please refer to SAMPJCL member GEN20RCB which lists them along with each description: CEHB860 /*CA GEN BASE MODULES (COMMON MODULES) CEG6860 /*CA GEN HOST ENCYCLOPEDIA CEG7860 /*CA GEN IMPLEMENT....
Currently using Gen 8.6 and would like to know if it has an End Of Support or End Of Service (EOS) date? Is there a newer version of Gen already available?,As of October 2025, Gen 8.6 has no End Of Support or End of Service(EOS) date announced. Going forward the latest information can be found on the Broadcom Support Portal Product Lifecycle page. NOTE: It is best to login to the portal first, otherwise....
Using Gen 8.6 Host Encyclopedia (HE) functions causes the ACCG860.ADLIB PDS library to grow with more members and eventually an E37 space issue occurs. Manual intervention is required to re-size the PDS.,Per Response Systems Access Gen (TSO) Install Guide, ADLIB contains a cache of action diagrams to remove the need for repeated calls to the encyclopedia. The recommended allocations are (250,50) Cylinders, lrecl=168, blksize=27888. For recommendatio....
Planning a Gen 8.6 C server environment with two server machines, running in an active/active load balance scenario. Does Gen 8.6 support this?,Load balancer configurations are not officially supported/tested with Gen. However in theory this could work as follows with this example: In a client/server deployment, a non-Gen load balancer would dictate which server machine is accessed based on ....
Per page Gen™ 8.6 > Technical Requirements > Third-Party Software Version under the "Compilers" section the Build Tool currently supports Java JDK versions 8 and 11. Are there plans to support later versions such as JDK 17 and JDK 21?,Per Gen EDGE Community page Gen 8.6 certification plans for 2025 and the statement from March 7, support for building Java applications with JDK 17 and 21 is planned for this calendar year. October 13, 2025 status The Gen product team are still hopin....
Gen 8.6 Java EJB server is deployed to a Liberty Application Server server instance. Gen 8.6 Web Generation client is also deployed to a separate Liberty server instance to the EJB server. The client is using remote EJBRMI to call the server and so t....,The Gen runtimes have been updated to address "CORBA BAD OPERATION" communication errors between a client and a server. However, similar CORBA errors may be encountered for these scenarios: Using JDK 21 with Liberty under Windows and either the clien....
After installing Gen 8.6 Liberty Support Phase 1 PTFs: Using copy of Gen 8.6 sample model with name samptest.ief. The %Gen86%\Gen\commcfg.properties file has this entry to use EJBRMI for the client/server connection: *=EJBRMI Y samptest Generated and....,Using the original commcfg.properties file with client and server assembled in the same samptest.ear file the "List > Divisions" call was successful: Also after changing the commcfg.properties file to have this entry and using separate .ear files the....
Running Gen 8.6 Java Web client/ EJB server application under Open Liberty with JDK 17 using remote EJBRMI. Most transactions are successful but when the EJB uses Import/Export numeric view attributes with the Decimal Precision flag enabled this erro....,This is a known problem with JDK 17 Azure / azure-sdk-for-java Public > [BUG] Cannot de/serialize and persist BigDecimals with jdk-17 OpenLiberty / open-liberty > ejbRemote-3.2 InaccessibleObjectException with Java 17 Use the workaround from the link....
This hub article references documentation pages and available articles related to the support of Gen 8.6 with the Liberty Application Server. Further articles will be added on an ongoing basis.,Table of Contents Documentation Knowledge Articles Documentation Gen 8.6.3 PTFs to support Liberty Application Server Phase 1 are now part of Gen™ 8.6 > Release Notes > Gen 8.6.4 Consolidation Gen 8.6 PTFs to support Liberty Application Server Phase ....
This article relates to using Gen Web client/EJB server applications under Liberty Application Server. It describes the various exceptions/errors javax.naming.NameNotFoundException, javax.naming.NoInitialContextException, "Using an invalid or unsuppo....,The correct EJBRMI syntax should be followed per commcfg.properties file comments (updated by Liberty Support Phase 2 PTFs: Gen 8.6 Solutions & Patches) # For Liberty, when client and server are assembled in the same EAR, the format is: # ....
For any supported Operating System (OS) platform, this article describes how to check the Gen 8.6 maintenance level i.e. What PTFs are already applied/installed What PTFs are missing and need to be applied/installed.,Table of Contents MAINFRAME (z/OS) DISTRIBUTED MAINFRAME (z/OS) For the z/OS platform, the status of the PTFs applied can be checked by running an SMP/E report of the Gen 8.6 CSI data set to list what SYSMODS have been received. This is an example of....
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Lynn Williams
Senior Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom Software
Australia
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