APAR PK10591 describes an overlay which occurs when a user (or job, or
started task) attempts to use TCP/IP's RESOLVER service without an OMVS
segment - either an explicit one, or a system-wide default OMVS segment.

If this unfortunate circumstance occurs, RESOLVER can overlay field
UCBNXUCB.  According to the APAR text, FDRPAS uses UCBNXUCB.

I don't have FDRPAS, but followed the "VERIFICATION STEPS" in the APAR, and
discovered that four DASD UCBs have been overlayed on my system.  We do not
have a default OMVS segment defined, so I suspected that we would be
exposed to this problem.

The defect apparently exists in z/OS 1.6 and higher.  There have been no
ill-effects noticed on my system, but I'm going to apply the fix asap,
anyway - my assumption is that any UCB overlay cannot be a good thing.

Brian

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