CASRVSYM 14.1 @ RO61734 ; ABEND S0C4 RSN=00000 038 AT 070C2001 933D84F2 ; ISSUER=CAMASTER

Products

• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• Datacom/AD
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware
• Compress Data Compression for MVS
• Compress Data Compression for Fujitsu

Issue/Introduction

after applying the IBM recommended maintenance for Meltdown and Spectre CASRVSYM 14.1 started to abend with 0C4 *CAMS100I CAMASTER INITIALIZATION IN PROGRESS IEA045I AN SVC DUMP HAS STARTED AT TIME=18.07.59 DATE=08/18/2018 471 FOR ASID (0015) ERROR ID = SEQ00002 CPU00 ASID0015 TIME18.07.59.2 QUIESCE = YES IEA794I SVC DUMP HAS CAPTURED: 472 DUMPID=001 REQUESTED BY JOB (CAMASTER) DUMP TITLE=CASRVSYM 14.1 @ RO61734 ; ABEND S0C4 RSN=00000 038 AT 070C2001 933D84F2 ; ISSUER=CAMASTER 

Environment

z/OS

Cause

Dumps shows abend result of "debris" in high half of R0 when returning from a STORAGE OBTAIN. CA will need to review code to determine the best way to address this situation. 

Resolution

The fix ST04907 was provided, and  has resolved the problem.