How to resolve the ESF172 Unsupported Connect:Direct Release found error

Products

• Spool

Issue/Introduction

What should be done to resolve the the message that occurs when Spool starts? ESF172 Unsupported Connect:Direct Release found

Environment

Release: Output Management Spool for z/OS 14.0

Resolution

When Spool starts, it tries to establish an API environment and checks the release level if the Connect:Direct load library is present either in a STEPLIB DD of the Spool task or in Linklist. The minimum release level is 4.7.

If there are not any Connect:Direct nodes defined to Spool, the message can be ignored since it will not stop Spool processing. Otherwise, the error message can be eliminated by removing the unsupported Connect:Direct load library from the STEPLIB DD of the Spool task OR System Linklist concatenations. 

If there Connect:Direct nodes defined to Spool, follow these steps:

1. Update the Spool procedure STEPLIB with a Connect:Direct load library of version 4.7 or newer.

2. Recycle the task. 

3. Verify the ESF172 message is no longer issued.

Additional Information

Nucleus Messages/ESF172