Some Ideal WEB transactions fail after upgrade to version 14.0

Products

• Ideal

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading from IDEAL 11.0 to IDEAL 14.0 some IDEAL WEB transactions that generate XML code are not working properly anymore.

Some messages are truncated. 

Environment

Ideal 14.0 ( and above)

Cause

The reason for the different behavior is that IDEAL 11.0 uses CICS Web Interface (CWI) while IDEAL 14.0 uses CICS Web Support (CWS) as recommended by IBM.

IBM has said CWI will be eliminated in favor of CWS in future. 

In Ideal 14.0 the COMMAREA variable is reconstructed by requesting the individual pieces from CICS Web Support.

When Ideal requests the query, it fails to parse and Ideal gets incomplete content. 

Resolution

In order to continue to execute using CWI, IDEAL 14.0 has provided a "direct link transaction driver" module SC00DLTD (refer to RO64275 )

Modify the IDEAL web analyzer (IDLWBADx) to invoke SC00DLTD instead of SC00WBTD.

Additional Information

Please consider application changes in the future that allow the use of CICS Web Support.