Entire System Server 3.5.3 Release Notes

For further information, also refer to the Release Notes for version 3.5.2 and 3.5.1. The corresponding documentation is available in https://empower.softwareag.com/Products/Documentation/default.asp.

This document covers the following topics:

Support of Previous Versions

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Prerequisites

Before you can install Entire System Server, the following Software AG products must already be installed at your site:

  • A license file. See Software AG Mainframe Product Licensing for transfering the license file to your mainframe platform (z/OS | z/VSE |BS2000/OSD );

  • Natural version 8.2.2 or above;

  • Adabas version 8.2.3 or above;

  • Entire System Server Interface (provided with Natural);

  • Entire Net-Work version 6.2.2 (optional, for multi-CPU support);

  • Natural ISPF version 8.2.2 or above (optional);

  • Predict version 8.2.2 or above (optional).

Entire System Server services are available in any Natural environment that runs any of or a combination of the following operating systems:

  • z/OS version 1.12 or above;

  • z/VSE version 4.3 or above;

  • BS2000/OSD version 6 or above.

Notes:

  • See IBM Information APAR II11784 for recommended JES3 SAPI maintenance.

  • Software AG provides support for Entire System Server for the operating system versions supported by their respective manufacturers. Generally, when an operating system provider stops supporting a version of an operating system, Software AG will stop supporting that operating system version.

  • Although it may be technically possible to run a new version of Entire System Server on an old operating system, Software AG cannot continue to support operating system versions that are no longer supported by the system's provider.

Enhancements

This section covers the following topics:

New Features

The following new features have been implemented:

EF-217 Support for large format sequential data sets (z/OS);
EF-219 Support latest version of MFLIC;
EF-521 Support for z/OS V2R1;
EF-1104 New view to determine whether a library is APF authorized or not (z/OS);
EF-1106 Enhance User Exit functionality (BS2000/OSD).

New, Changed and Deleted Fields

The following table summarizes fields that have been added, changed or deleted in an existing view. For details, refer to the respective view in View Descriptions in the User's Guide documentation.

View Field New/Changed/Deleted
FILE-ALLOCATE DSNTYPE New, A8
READ-FILE BLOCK-TOKEN New, B4
WRITE-FILE BLOCK-TOKEN New, B4
UNIT-ATTRIBUTES EAV New, A3
  FREE-CYLINDERS-TRACK-MANAGED New, N7
  FREE-EXTENTS-TRACK-MANAGED New, N4
  CONTIG-CYLINDERS-TRACK-MANAGED New, N7
  TOTAL-CYLINDERS-TRACK-MANAGED New, N7

Note:
These changes are not included in the Predict data for the view descriptions. The Predict data still reflects Entire System Server version 3.5.1. The changes will be included in the next regular release of the Entire System Server.

Solved Problems

This section gives an overview on solved problems for Entire System Server 3.5.3.

Solved Problems for z/OS

Problem Short Description
NPRMF-968 Error "ESY5803 Cannot access data." from ALLOCATIONS.
NPRMF-971 Printing to Hardcopy Printer using Access-Method AM=ESS in Natural is incomplete
NPRMF-993 Abend 0C4 in case of MPM 00 error during startup
NPRMF-995 nat message for write-file
NPRMF-580 Param TRACE-SAV=/TRACE-LEN
NPRMF-948 Nested SEND-EMAIL should result in error message
NPRMF-1025 Eventing View: a second Wait after Post is not handled correctly
NPRMF-1020 SPOOL-UPDATE CANCEL fails for job on output queue without any output elements
NPRMF-1021 Command Logging may Abend the entire Address Space
NPRMF-1030 Abend S0C4-38 in XCOMXMEM at +X'1C8'
NPRMF-1033 NPR may hang after client cancels its own address space using this NPR
NPRMF-1042 error 5722 occurs after using "LARGEDS=ALLOWED" und "CYL_MANAGED=ALLOWED" in JES2
NPRMF-1056 Abend S0C4-10 in XCOMV035 at +X' 2456'

Solved Problems for z/VSE

Problem Short Description
NPRMF-977 Dump at Browse of XMT-Queue Entries
NPRMF-994 abend AB21 under NPR
NPRMF-1003 view SYSTEM-INFO in VSE shows wrong values
NPRMF-948 Nested SEND-EMAIL should result in error message
NPRMF-1007 VSE: Console-log provide wrong Record-number
NPRMF-1011 Error NAT3003 using view Submit or Write-file in VSE
NPRMF-1009 S0C4-Dump doing Browse on currently transferred Job
NPRMF-1014 Hang Situation in NPR under VSE
NPRMF-1024 trying to copy an Librarian member may result in error-code 698
NPRMF-1034 Message ESY0007I INACTIVE USER needs 2 lines
ES-12229 NSPF823 / NPR352 for VSE: Time missing in SYSLOG

Solved Problems for BS2000/OSD

Problem Short Description
NPRMF-1043 ISAM: READ-FILE DIRECTION=B returns no records

Changes with the Next Version

We plan to implement support for multi-level security in z/OS with a future version of Entire System Server. This may require changes to customized versions of the current security exits. If you are using non-standard resource classes in your security exits, please communicate your requirements to Software AG support.