Here is the January list of New & Updated Gen Knowledge Base Articles (January 1-31, 2023, US EDT)
The full list of KB articles can be found from the Gen Product page: https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdetails?productName=Gen
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Starting to see this license warning: CAS9013A Product 4F about to expire or is expired and is in use Have used Gen TCP/IP Direct Connect for CICS (CICS Sockets Server Listener (TISRVLIS) and CICS Multi Socket Server Listener (TISRVMSL)) for some ....,Please contact Broadcom Customer Care team to request the required license for Gen TCP/IP Direct Connect LMP product key 4F. Alternatively if you have no current license entitlement for Gen TCP/IP Direct Connect please contact your Broadcom Account t....
The Gen 8.6 Consuming REST APIs for Java and CICS Applications feature allows your Gen applications to use functionality provided by RESTful Web Services. The purpose of this document is to help you get started using this feature by answering some o....,1) What is a RESTful API? The textbook definition is a Web API (Web Service) that conforms to the REST architectural style. A good description of REST can be found here. In Gen, the Call REST statement can be used for any Web Service that communica....
The Gen 8.6 Consuming REST APIs for Java and CICS Applications feature allows your Gen applications to use functionality provided by RESTful Web Services. The purpose of this document is to help you get started using this feature. This document wil....,To get started using the Consuming REST APIs for Java and CICS Applications feature, please follow these steps: Apply PTFs Update Encyclopedia Schema Tables Convert Models Add Call REST statement Configure Execution Environment Apply PTFs The followi....
Example model containing methods to access Excel Spreadsheets is needed.,Attached is an example model containing methods to access Excel Spreadsheets.
Looking to run a proof of concept to increase security. Is it possible to pass a userid greater than 8 characters from Gen Java Proxy client to Gen z/OS server? If so, can you parse it so that the first part of the userid lets the transaction run und....,1. To pass a userid greater than 8 characters requires using Enhanced Security. This enables the client_user_id variable to be populated with a client side userid that is up to 64 characters. Java Proxies have support for Enhanced security in securi....
Can Gen client/server applications support Kerberos authentication?,CA Gen client/server applications have no direct support for Kerberos authentication but can indirectly support Kerberos by customisation of the security user exits to use Enhanced Security with security token as follows: 1. The Enhanced Security and....
Last week we were provided with a new license key. We followed the instructions and applied the ca.olf to the correct directory. For some reason, we keep getting this error when using Gen Toolset "No valid license key found for this product" SUPPORT ....,This type of error often mean that the ca.olf license file FEATURE lines have reached expiry date or there is some other problem with the ca.olf file. On this occasion it was possible to resolve the issue by copying a ca.olf file from another worksta....
After upgrade to Gen 8.6 the Communications Bridge/Comm. Bridge (CB) crashes during a stress test for a large number of connections.,If the large CFB feature is not required to be used Gen 8.5 Comm. Bridge PTFs CCN85001/RO68926 & CCN85003/RO79154 provide a method to set a Windows System environment variable to enable each connection to have the previous lower maximum CFB value of ....
This is an explanation of the Communications Bridge (Comm. Bridge / CB) parameter Idle Client Timeout.,The idle client timeout mechanism is meant to purge/disconnect client connections in order to free up connections slots for new client connections when the total number of connections might exceed the 255 limit. The lower the number the more frequent....
When doing a full batch generate of a model, it's not generating the DBRM for one of the action blocks. If this action block is generated alone, it generates it's DBRM. Past full generations for the model have gone well after freeing all related pack....,To resolve this error and potentially others, run a Consistency Check to help identify any usages of unsupported functions. Modify the PAD logic in any Action Block that is using an unsupported function if the Action Block is going to be generated fo....
Gen "consumer" model Server PStep EJB Web Service uses Call External to access the EJB Web Service from a "provider model" but fails with error 305 in SoapUI. The export views contains group views and date data:
All latest Gen 8.6 Toolset PTFs installed up to and including TSN86215. Create a new CAB in a model and add a Call External statement. On the "Select WSDL Method" dialog after the WSDL file is parsed select the displayed method and press the Add butt....,In the WSDL file which causes the error there is a single element which is very simple and contains no complex types (no xsd:complexType) i.e.: +++++
Executed cse_config.exe with "Update Encyclopedia tables to the release" option. In step Updating Encyclopedia tables, "Error - 1073741819 while running Encyclopedia initialization" is shown. Same behavior on multiple executions.,The Oracle environment is not correct. By changing the environment resolved the problem The Windows server has IET GuardIEn beside the Gen CSE. The Gen CSE Software is 32bit and uses the 32bit Oracle 12c Client. GuardIEn version being used is 32bi....
Attempting to compile a Gen Action Block which contains an inline code statements for Cobol/CICS. Get a compiler error: "IGYPS0228-S An "EXEC CICS" statement was found, but the "CICS" compiler option was not in effect. The statement was discarded.....,When compiling Gen Action Diagram in Cobol with inline code, and inline code contains 'Exec CICS' statement, this is the error received (IGYPS0228-S). The Exec CICS statement is not allowed, reference the document (Gen 8.5 or 8.6) at the link below,....
Both COBOL 5.x and COBOL 6.x have been certified for use with CA Gen 8.5 and CA Gen 8.6 Host Encyclopedia (HE) and Implementation Toolset (IT). This document explains the requirements to use each COBOL version with each CA Gen release. Note that aft....,CA Gen PTFs for COBOL 5 or COBOL 6.x The CA Gen support for COBOL 5.x was added in 8.0 (HE) with the following PTFs: RO68840, RO68841, RO81026, RO83289 NOTE: There is no support for the 8.0 IT with COBOL 5.x and above. The 8.0 IT supports COBOL 4.2 ....
When trying to open the Gen 8.6 Toolset all too often developers are presented with the Confirmation message box: Unable to create a unique work directory C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\Gen86\Gen\wknnnnnn\. You may wish to check manually before Retry. A ....,A more user-friendly workaround is as follows: Take a "good" copy of a working ief6900.dat file e.g. ief6900_good.dat. Edit the "%Gen86%\Gen\toolset.bat" file to delete the current ief6900.dat file and copy in the ief6900_good.dat file before every T....
In the Gen Toolset: - Under Options/Paths, when the user changes any of the default settings for Output, Models and Work directories those values are stored in a file name ief6900.dat created in directory "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\CA\Gen 8.6\cfg\T....,When the Toolset is started for the first time the ief6900.dat file is created and initially contains no values for the Output, Models and Work directories. Options/Paths 1. These default values are used for the 3 settable directories: Output: %USERP....
After changing from using the single CICS Sockets Server Listener TISRVLIS to CICS Multi Socket Server Listener TISRVMSL, have defined the CICS TRAN, PROG and EZACONFG entries. However, when trying to run a client-server transaction, the following e....,The "TIRM621E: Error creating semaphore, can't access server" client-side error is normally associated with CICS log showing an error "GIVESOCKET NOT TAKEN FOR SERVER ..." for the TISRVMSL (or TISRVLIS). If that message is present in the CICS log it ....
This document details the timeout parameters for the CA Gen CICS Sockets Server Listeners with reference to the related user exits for the listener TIRSLTMX, TIRSLEXT and server TIRSIPEX. The information applies to both the CICS (single) Sockets Serv....,The TCP/IP CICS sockets parameters ACCTIME, GIVTIME and REATIME can be customised for use with the listener. Those values are read from the EZACONFG file but can also be overridden in the listener user exits TIRSLTMX and TIRSLEXT. The suggested defau....
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Lynn Williams
Senior Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom Software
Australia
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