Starting ESP RESTAPI error BPXP005I A FORK OR SPAWN ERROR WAS ENCOUNTERED.

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Hi Team,

When bringing up RESTAPI you receive the following error

BPXP005I A FORK OR SPAWN ERROR WAS ENCOUNTERED.  RETURN CODE 00000070 REASON CODE 0B17001F

 

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : CA ESP WORKLOAD AUTOMATION

Cause

Did not have a definition for OMVS in SMFPRM member. When there is no OMVS definition it defaulted to the system definition, which includes IEFUSI. IEFUSI restricts the available region for a Started Task.

Resolution

Added the following in SMFPRMxx member in sys1.parmlib.

SUBSYS(OMVS,NOEXITS)