With respect to the problem being mentioned here, a critical portion of the APAR information was left out.
Here's what was included in the previous post: >"ACTION: After many attempts to solve this that failed, it was decided that we >could not support IMFEXEC SUBMIT in this context. A new message was added to Exec Manager to block the use of IMFEXEC SUBMIT and give the user a RC=16. The message documentation suggests that >the user switch to using JESSUBM instead. >CIRCUMVENTIONS: >Run the PAS in key8. Under z/OS 1.8, this may require setting the DIAG >parameter named ALLOWUSERKEYCSA to YES." Here's the rest of the APAR information (which appearred BEFORE the ACTION in the APAR text): ANALYSIS: When running a MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR PAS in key4 under z/OS 1.8 with ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO), the use of IMEXEC SUBMIT fails with a S0C4. This is because IKJEFF04 has hard-coded PSW key switches to key8 even though it was invoked in key4. As soon as the routine switches to key8, it will fail when it attempts to update or fetch any information from a control block in key4 storage. -- End of additional APAR text -- While I am not defending the product's need for Key 8 CSA in order to perform the requested function, the problem is being caused by an IBM module that NOT conforming to expectations, i.e., that any module that changed states would be expected to return to the caller's state, not arbitrarily assume that the caller was in a particular key or state. YEARS AGO, at GUIDE (and probably at SHARE as well), this type of behavior was pointed out to IBM and REQUIREMENTS were submitted to get it changed. They were routinely REJECTED. A GUIDE White Paper on the subject of well behaved interfaces pointed out that this behavior (i.e., hard coding key 8) violates both the Principle of Least Astonishment and the Kindergarten Rules of Programming (adapted from the essay, "Everything I need to know, I learned in Kindergarten"). Disclaimer: I work for BMC on some MAINVIEW products, although not the one involved with this problem. Keith E. Moe Laid Back Software, Inc. http://www.laidbacksoftware.com (408) 749-0655 Creator of the TSO Environment and Administration Manager Product. (I also do MAINVIEW support for BMC Software, Inc.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
