Is CA XCOM affected by IBM?s Red Alert notification related to z/OS Unicode Services Conversion Information Service?

Products

• XCOM Data Transport
• XCOM Data Transport - Windows
• XCOM Data Transport - Linux PC
• XCOM Data Transport - z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Question:

 

Is CA XCOM affected by IBM's Red Alert notification related to z/OS Unicode Services Conversion?

 

Answer:

 

Per IBM’s Red Alert notification z/OS Unicode Services Conversion Information Service will fail after December 15, 2015. It has been confirmed that parts of our CA XCOM product will be affected so you have to take action today.

 

IBM has created specific z/OS release maintenance to resolve the underlying problem.

 

When contacting IBM ask for IBM APAR OA48941.

 

OA48941: UNICODE CONVERSION INFORMATION SERVICE FAILS RC8 RSNB SYSTEM TOD CLOCK TIMESTAMP EXCEEDS 12/15/2015 13:24:57.238527 CUNLINFO

 

See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941

 

Applicable component levels are :

 

R7A0 PSY UP IA48941
R780 PSY UP GA48941
R790 PSY UP HA48941

 

Additional Information:

 

Be aware that IBM has to be contacted to confirm the IBM APAR number and applicable PTFs for your specific z/OS system level. There is no circumvention to mitigate the reported problems other than to install the maintenance recommended by IBM.

Environment

Release: XCOM..01300-11.6-XCOM Data Transport-for AIX
Component: