After upgrading to CA Panvalet V14.6, a 77 PAN-VALET line is being inserted into Working Storage of COBOL programs. Why?

Products

• Panvalet

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading to CA Panvalet V14.6, a 77 PAN-VALET line is being inserted into Working Storage of COBOL programs.  Why?

Environment

z/OS

Cause

In Panvalet V14.6 the Load Module Auditor Extended Feature was mistakenly distributed activated in the PANEXIT module. 

Panvalet Load Module Auditor inserts extra lines in COBOL Working Storage that start with: 77 PAN-VALET PICTURE X(24) VALUE.....

It also inserts a similar CSECT at the end of Assembler programs. 

 

Resolution

Download and Apply PTF RO25651 from CA Support Online.

Additional Information

The Load Module Auditor is documented in Chapter 3: Extended Features of the CA Panvalet Extended Features Guide.