ACF2 CICS CSECT ACFAEUCC Failed with Abend Code ???N

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC

Issue/Introduction

CICS SIGNON getting ???N Abend Program ACFAEUCC or
An abend (code 0C1/AKEA) has occurred at offset X'FFFFFFFF' in module ACFAEMTP with ACFM transaction.

 

 

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : CA ACF2 for z/OS

Resolution

The ???N abend when starting the CICS region can be caused by any of the following possible causes:

1. CICS address space logonid does not have the logonid ACF2CICS privilege bit set. To verify check the ACF9CCCD message in the CICS joblog. Do a TSO, ACF, LIST logonid where logonid is the logonid from the ACF9CCCD message that the ACF2CICS bit is set as shown below:

CICSSTC                           CICSSTC  CICSSTC                       
PRIVILEGES           CICS DUMPAUTH JOB MUSASS STC     
ACCESS               ACC-CNT(98) ACC-DATE(08/13/21) ACC-SRCE(STCINRDR)     
                     ACC-TIME(13:49)                                       
PASSWORD             KERB-VIO(0) KERBCURV() MAXDAYS(90)                   
                     PSWA1TOD(00/00/00-00:00) PSWA2TOD(00/00/00-00:00)     
                     PSWD-DAT(00/00/00) PSWD-INV(0) PSWD-TOD(00/00/00-00:00)
                     PSWD-VIO(0) PSWDCVIO(0) PWP-DATE(00/00/00) PWP-VIO(0)
TSO                  CHAR(BS) DFT-PFX(CICSSTC) DFT-SOUT(A) DFT-SUBM(A)     
                     INTERCOM JCL LGN-ACCT LGN-PROC LINE(ATTN) MAIL MSGID 
                     NOTICES PROMPT TSOFSCRN TSOPROC(xxxxxx) TSORGN(4,096)
                     TSOSIZE(131,072) WTP                                 
STATISTICS           CRE-TOD(02/05/20-13:59) SEC-VIO(0)                    
                     UPD-TOD(08/13/21-13:49)                               
CICS                 ACF2CICS                                  
MUSASS               MUSUPDT                                               
RESTRICTIONS         GROUP(DFTGRP) PREFIX(CICSSTC)   

2. Verify the ENF task has been started and is active.

3. Verify that the ENF CICSREL(72) and MODE(CICS,ON) is specified in ENFPARMS.

4 Verify the required CA ACF2 16.0 maintenance for CTS 5.5 is applied:
SO04012 SO07136 SO08480

5. Verify the required CA Common Services for z/OS is at version 15.0 or that version 14.1 maintenance for CTS 5.5 is applied:
RO98736

Additional Information

If you are updating from more than the prior release of CICS additional maintenance for prior releases may be needed, please see Mainframe Compatibilities.