Installing Datacom/DB when CICS SDFHLOAD library name is not available

Products

• Datacom
• Datacom/DB

Issue/Introduction

When installing Datacom/DB you are asked to provide the name of the SDFHLOAD library that will be used to include some CICS modules when linking Datacom modules.

If a customer has no CICS license, the SDFHLOAD library is not available and so the SMP/E APPLY will fail for the FMIDs that require these CICS modules. The most common error is:

GIM23901E ** LINK-EDIT PROCESSING FOR SYSMOD xxxxxx FAILED FOR MODULE mmmmmm IN LMOD DDBSC22 IN THE CABDLOAD LIBRARY. THE RETURN CODE (08) EXCEEDED THE ALLOWABLE VALUE.

This is due to a linkedit error like:

IEW2303E 1030 MEMBER xxxxxx OF THE DATA SET SPECIFIED BY SDFHLOAD COULD NOT BE FOUND.  

where xxxxxx is usually DFHEAI or DFHEAI0

Environment

Release: 15.1

Resolution

In order to successfully complete the installation, you have to create a  “fake” SDFHLOAD library and link on it the “fake” CICS members that are required for successfully link-editing the Datacom modules. 

The JCL to create the library and the modules can be found in the attached file SDFHLOAD.txt