After upgrading the IDMS CV, we get system abend SFF1 at startup. What are the reasons for this abend?

Products

• IDMS
• IDMS - Database
• IDMS - ADS

Issue/Introduction

The System ABEND SFxx (where xx is a hexadecimal number that corresponds to an SVC requested by the abending job) means the requested SVC is not known to the Operating System. In this article, SVC number 241 is used.

Environment

IDMS - All Supported Releases

Resolution

There could be several reasons why the IDMS CV could get this error at startup:

1. The IDMS SYSTEM definition in the SYSGEN may have the incorrect SVC number coded.
   
   
2. The security table RHDCSRTT may have the incorrect SVC number coded. Check the #SECRTT
   TYPE=INITIAL,SVCNUM=241
   
   
3. Both the IDMS SYSGEN and RHDCSRTT must have the same SVC number coded, and the CAIRIM job that should have installed the SVC may have gotten an error resulting in the SVC not being loaded. Run the CAIRIM job to install the SVC in LPA.
   
   
4. Verify that the CAIRIM job completed with no errors after the IPL. Check for the following messages:
   
   CAS9115I - INPUT: PRODUCT(CA-IDMS) VERSION(GJJ0) INIT(GJJ0INIT) PARM(SVC=241)
   GJJ0INIT - SUCCESSFULLY ADDED SVC 241.
   CAS9130I - MODULE GJJ0INIT COMPLETE, RC=00
   
   
5. If the library CAIRIM was using is not APF authorized, CAIRIM will abend. The APFLIB should be authorized. 
   
   

 

Additional Information

CAIRIM and SVC doc in Post-Configuration tasks