Top Secret ABEND S878 IN TSSKERNL+3068

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Issue/Introduction

 TSS abends on the system console. The message begins as follows:

TSS9999E CA-TSS SECURITY SVC ABEND S878 IN TSSKERNL+3068
CCSR010E TSSRSVCS S878 at 33318318 LMOD TSSKERNL CSECT TSSKEXTR +0017E8

No system problems result from this abend. 

Looking back in syslog, there are similar abends with different offsets in TSSKERNL:

TSS9999E CA-TSS SECURITY SVC ABEND S0C4 IN TSSKERNL+27F3C

TSS9999E CA-TSS SECURITY SVC ABEND S0C4 IN TSSKERNL+28058

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : Top Secret for z/OS

Resolution

A Dump provided the following information:

USERA running program GO attempted to take a dump U4087 (not enough storage in the region). T

he job was unable to take that dump and was terminates when a RACROUTE REQUEST=EXTRACT is issued.

TSS attempts to get x'100' bytes of 24-bit storage and TSS gets the S878 abend.

The following setting are in SMFLIM00 parmlib:

REGIONBELOW(NOLIMIT) 

The program used all the available storage below-24M line and causes the S878 abend.