After upgrading from CTS 5.4 to CTS 5.6 Intertest CICS release 11 PLTPI program IN25PLT fails to start Intertest CICS. The CICS log contains a message that Intertest CICS load module IN73SERS abended with an ASRA.
DFHDU0203I 03/17/2023 15:36:10 A11IC4S5 A transaction dump was taken for dumpcode: ASRA, Dumpid: 1/0002, Tranid: CNTL, Tranum: 00000045, Program: IN73SERS.
Z/OS
CICS
The Intertest CICS RDO group INT11073 was missing program IN73AI73. This missing RDO entry caused the Intertest CICS startup program IN25PLT to abend in program IN73SERS with an ASRA abend.
The client was missing the CICS RDO entry IN73AI73.
DEFINE PROGRAM(IN73AI73) GROUP(INT11073)
DESCRIPTION(INTERTEST PROCESSING PROGRAM)
LANGUAGE(ASSEMBLER)
CEDF(NO) DATALOCATION(BELOW)
EXECKEY(CICS)
As Part of the Intertest CICS CTS 5.6 upgrade you are required to migrated the Intertest CICS CTS 5.6 RDO entries to the CICS CSD file. The RDO entries are located in HLQ.CAVHJCL(CSDINT73). It appears that during the customization of the RDO entries for an MRO environment program IN73AI73 was accidently deleted from the RDO group. This missing RDO entry cased the Intertest CICS program IN25PLT to abend at CICS initialization when attempting to start Intertest CICS.
For additional information on the Intertest CICS RDO requirements please review the following documentation link.
Add the Required CICS Resource Definitions