Is the version of the JRE that you are running broken?
Try running Hello World from the z/OS UNIX shell - making sure to point to the 
same exact JRE

https://www.tutorialkart.com/java/helloworld-java/

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
https://coztoolkit.com

On Mon, Dec 2, 2024, at 1:03 PM, Tom Longfellow wrote:
> I am back in my own personal Hell that appears when I have to debug something 
> in the unix/linux world.   I am here hoping to piggy back on the experiences 
> of others who have been thrown into the deep end and survived.
> 
> My usual approach to debugging is to look at the messages and codes produced 
> during the problem... then looking up what the message REALLY means (if you 
> can find any documentation to help translation).   That usually gets me close 
> enough to at least guess about what went wrong and how to fix it.   
> 
> The present problem is that the TOMCAT JAVA app server that has been running 
> for MANY years has now gone on strike.   The 'S TOMCAT' command is met with a 
> U4038 abend and instant death.    I do know that U4038 is the generic 
> "something went wrong"  from the LE language environment modules.    
> That is ALL that I get.   No unix log files, so monster JAVA stack dumps with 
> module names spread out over pages of dump output.   NO dump output of any 
> kind.   Nothing in the Unix syslog.   Nothing written to the JES spool for 
> this started task.   and so on.
> 
> This post is a 'hail mary' that hopefully reaches the other poor sap who 
> remembers how they got out of a similar situation,
> 
> TLDR summary:  A working JAVA app now fails to start with no know trail of 
> how and why it failed.   Where is a poor sysprog to look to find the problem?
> 
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