DP859 DATASET OPEN during DADS Plus for CICS RPL refresh

Products

• DADS Plus

Issue/Introduction

After applying the DADS Plus for CICS CTS 5.2 fixes and reinstalling the SVC, an attempt to change the DFHRPL concatenation using the DADS DFHRPL LIBRARIES REALLOCATION MENU resulted in the refresh failing with error message

DP859 DATASET OPEN

There is also a DAL1 abend in the CICS log.

Environment

Release: 4.0
Component: DADS Plus for CICS

Cause

The cause of the problem is SmartTest r 8.0 from vendor ASG. The current design of SmartTest r 8.0 has an open DCB for its load library which is defined in the CICS DFHRPL concatenation. DADS cannot refresh the RPL due to this open. As a test, once SmartTest was removed from the PLT the problem no longer occurred.

Resolution

The current work around with CICS active is to turnoff SmartTest, refresh the RPL using DADS Plus and then to turn SmartTest back on. The ASG SmartTest development team is aware of this compatibility issue and SmartTest is being redesigned in release 8.1 to resolve this compatibility issue. Please contact ASG for additional information on release 8.1.