IEF677I after adding MDFYRPL to the CICS startup JCL

Products

• DADS Plus

Issue/Introduction

DADS Plus for CICS has a feature that allows the user to modify the CICS DFHRPL concatenation. In order to change the DFHRPL, the user is required to add DD statement // DD DDNAME=MDFYRPL to the CICS startup JCL. When the // DD DDNAME=MDFYRPL is added and CICS is started, this message is generated.

15.27.22 JOB25556 IEF677I WARNING MESSAGE(S) FOR JOB CICS01 ISSUED

Environment

Release: 4.0
Component: DADS Plus for CICS

Cause

This message is being generated by the IBM JES Interpreter. The IBM message is not very informative and does not explain why this message is being generated by the JES Interpreter. Contact IBM to see if they can explain why this message is being generated.

Resolution

This is a warning message only and it does not have any impact on the DADS Plus for CICS DFHRPL feature. There are no reported problems for this warning  message. On the LPAR SYSTEM LOG, there will most likely be many IEF677I messages generated for different jobs that have run on the LPAR. From searches on the web for  the IEF677I message, other clients have encountered the same message and seems to point back to how JES is configured on the LPAR. Please open a case with IBM to see if they can explain why this message is being generated and if it can be suppressed.