ICSCINIT12E - THE SCF OPTION BLOCK LIBRARY CANNOT BE INITIALIZED.

Products

• IPC
• Ideal

Issue/Introduction

Error message ICSCINIT12E - THE SCF OPTION BLOCK LIBRARY CANNOT BE INITIALIZED -- > RC8 when signing onto Ideal.

DFHAC2206  Transaction IPCV has failed with abend INIC. 

Environment

IPC / IDEAL  all versions

MRO CICS

Cause

This error message indicates that we are unable to access the VLS library ADRPNL which stores the IDEAL option block.

This library is created during the IPC installation, and Ideal panels are added to it during the Ideal installation.

A CICS trace showed that CICS file ADRPNL could not be found.

Resolution

• This can be caused by using an incorrect REMOTESYSTEM (or REMODEID) in the CICS definitions. 

• Also, make sure the FCT entries exist.  To verify that FCT entries exist for all the IPC VLS files, issue the following command from native CICS:

CEMT I FI(ADR*)

Sample output from the above command follows:

I FI(ADR*)
STATUS: RESULTS - OVERTYPE TO MODIFY
Fil(ADRINT ) Bda Ope Ena Rea Exc Sha
    Dsn( IDLT.IPCV151.ADRTRC )
Fil(ADRLIB ) Bda Ope Ena Rea Upd Add Bro Exc Sha
    Dsn( IDLT.V151.DIDBVLS.ADRLIB )
Fil(ADROUT ) Bda Ope Ena Rea Upd Add Bro Exc Sha
    Dsn( IDLT.IPCV151.ADROUT )
Fil(ADRPNL ) Bda Ope Ena Rea Upd Add Bro Exc Sha
    Dsn( IDLT.V151.DIDBVLS.ADRPNL ) 

If the FCT entries exist, run a VLSUTIL library listing to verify the block size and namelen. This will be displayed at the end of the report.

Additional Information

For information on running a VLSUTIL library listing, see LIBRARY or LIB Function