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Question
Why am I receiving a system completion code 878 in my CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) V5.2 region? I have BMC's product FastPath Utilities for IMS.
During startup of CICS, I receive the following error messages multiple times:
IEA705I ERROR DURING FREEMAIN SYS CODE = 878-18
IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT
SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=878 REASON CODE=00000018
PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 070C1000 81551B96 ILC 2 INTC 0D
AR/GR 0: 008822B0/84000000 1: 00000000/84878000
2: 00000000/00000004 3: 04000000/0480E601
4: 00000000/008822B0 5: 00000000/00000005
6: 00000000/00FDA5F4 7: 00000000/00000878
8: 00000000/00000018 9: 00000000/FFFF871A
A: 00000000/7F126000 B: 00000000/00F65100
C: 00000000/81551B5E D: 00000000/7FF16008
E: 00000000/BBC8D318 F: 04000000/00000018
END OF SYMPTOM DUMP
Answer
The 878 RC 18 indicates negative amount of storage was specified on the FREEMAIN request.
The following SLIP command was set to capture a dump at the time of the 878 abend:
SLIP SET,COMP=878,A=SVCD,SDATA=(ALLNUC,
PSA,SQA,CSA,LPA,TRT,LSQA,RGN),JOBNAME=xxxx,END
You can enter IPCS command IP SYSTRACE to display the system trace in the slip dump taken of the the 878. Reviewing system trace shows it did not occur on a CICS TCB, but on an IMS TCB with entry point DFSPAT00.
Here is this freemain in system trace:
WU-Addr- Ident CD/D PSW----- Address- Unique-1 Unique-2 Unique-3
Unique-4 Unique-5 Unique-6
00882518 PC ... 7 3BC8D318 00311 -------> Freemain request <-------
00882518 SSRV 133 00000000 0480E601 00000000 7F4D3000
00C200FF
00882518 *SVC D 00000000_01551B96 00000018 84000000 84878000
07041000 80000000
Next, you can enter option 1 from the IPCS primary option menu to Browse the dump data set starting at the PSW address from the FREEMAIN request (3BC8D318 in this case). Scrolling backwards until you find an eyecatcher, you will find the following BMC module eye catcher if you are experiencing the same problem:
| .........................00u.PFX |
| DEPRE4.00 09/09/15-09.3 |
| 8 BQQ1113-BQQ1322- |
| (C) COPYRIGHT |
| 192000,1915 BY BMC LICENSED PRO |
| PERTY OF BMC SOFTWARE, INC....}. |
Contact BMC for a resolution.
Product Synonym
CICS/TS CICSTS CICS TS CICS Transaction Server
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23 March 2020
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