After upgrading Intertest CICS r 11 from CICS 5.4 to CICS 5.6 program IN25PLT abends with AEY9 during PLT processing.

Products

• InterTest - CICS

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading CICS from CICS TS 5.4 to CICS TS 5.6 Intertest CICS  release 11 abends at CICS PLTPI startup time with abend code AEY9.

The CICS 5.6 log has the following abend message.

DFHSI8431I   15/07/2022 14:14:01 FTPTAOR4 PLT program IN25PLT has been invoked during the third stage of initialization.
DFHDU0203I 15/07/2022 14:14:02 FTPTAOR4 A transaction dump was taken for dumpcode: AEY9 
   

Environment

Z/OS

CICS

Cause

There are two possible causes of the AEY9 abend in the Intertest CICS IN25PLT program  at CICS PLTPI time. The Intertest CICS r 11 CICS 5.6 certification fixes are not applied or the wrong Intertest CICS RDO CSD entries are being used in CICS 5.6.

Resolution

For Intertest CICS release 11 CICS 5.6 compatibility the following conditions must be met.

1. The Intertest CICS r 11 CTS 5.6 certification fixes must be applied to the Intertest CICS SMP environment. Below are the Intertest CICS r 11 CTS 5.6 certification fixes that are required based on the FMID'S applied in the SMP environment.
 
LU03473
INTSYM SUPPORT FOR CTS 6.1
CABAB00

LU03474
INTSYM SUPPORT FOR CTS 6.1
CABAB01

LU03475
INTSYM SUPPORT FOR CTS 6.1
CABQB00
 
LU03476
INTSYM SUPPORT FOR CTS 6.1
CAVHB00

LU03477
INTSYM SUPPORT FOR CTS 6.1
CAVHB01
 
LU03478
INTSYM SUPPORT FOR CTS 6.1
CCSAB00

2. The Intertest CICS release 11 CTS 5.6 RDO entries must be installed at CICS PLT time. Each release of Intertest CICS r 11 has unique RDO entries for each level of CICS. For CICS 5.6 the RDO entries are located in the installation PDS HLQ.CAVHJCL member CSDINT73.