rc -27 with Top Secret and CICS TRANSACTION GATEWAY with RCI LINKS

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

When using CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS connecting via an RCI link and the security setting is ATTACHSEC+VERIFY, the following error occurs:

(request failed with ECI_ERR_SECURITY_ERROR ( rc-27))

This means that there is an issue with the SURROGAT Class.

Resolution

To resolve this, you can either specify:

SURROGCHK=NO

...in the DFHXCOPT Options Table, or run the following commands:

TSS ADD(dept) SURROGAT(*.DFHEXCI)          
TSS PER(ALL) SURROGAT(*.DFHEXCI) ACCESS(READ)