When starting a CICS region getting message: ACFAE029 Load failure: installation exit

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - DB2 Option
• ACF2 for zVM
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC
• PanApt
• PanAudit

Issue/Introduction

The CICS region is protected by ACF2/CICS. When the region starts the following messages are received:

ACFAE044 Phase 2 Initialization Started
ACFAE050 Signon Manager Subtask is active
ACFAE075 Storage manager subtask has been attached
ACFAE051 Attaching 005 Signon Server Subtasks
ACFAE076 Program manager subtask has been attached
ACFAE029 Load failure: installation exit 018 : ACFAE098 CICS ACFAE029 Reply 'RETRY', 'GO', or 'CANCEL'

Why is ACFAE029 issued?

 

 

Environment

Release:
Component: ACF2MS

Resolution

The ACFAE029 means that the ACF2/CICS ACF2PARM parameter is setup to request exit processing but the exit module cannot be found in the CICS region. Check the ACF2/CICS ACF2PARM parameter or the CONTROL(CIC) EXIT record. The EXIT record might look like this:

EXIT PROGRAM=EXITCIC
IDLE=YES
IMPLIED=NO

In this case, program EXITCIC would need to be able to be loaded by the CICS region - Adding the program to the CICS STEPLIB will accomplish this and message ACFAE029 would then not occur.