BAQZCBT zconbt batch job fails BAQB0006E: Failed to save service archive file Reason: DFHPI9552E

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Question

I was looking at how to embed the z/OS Connect V3 Enterprise Edition (EE) within by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) V5.3 region and was performing each of the steps outlined in the Mainframe Dev article Configuring z/OS Connect EE v3 inside CICS Transaction Server

When I got to step to "Build your SAR file for EDUCHAN", I chose to keep the COBOL copy book EDUSTRUC referred to in the EDUCHANresponseCDD.xml CDD in the PDS and not download it. I did this based on note 4 of Building a SAR for the CICS service provider in the z/O Connect EE documentation which indicates both the requestStructure and responseStrucutre definition elements can be in a Unix directory or a PDS member .

My EDUCHANresponseCDD.xml looks like this:

 <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
 <!-- Channel Description Document EDUCHAN response                         -->
 <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
 <channel xmlns="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/CICS/channel">
    <container name="CICSRC" type="bit" use="required">
            <structure location="//BULFIN.CNTL.COB2(EDUSTRUC)"/>
    </container>
    <container name="OUTPUTDATA" type="char" use="required"/>
    <container name="CICSTIME" type="char" use="required"/>
 </channel>

When I run the BAQZCBT batch job, my STDOUT DD shows messages:

BAQB0000I: z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition Build Toolkit Version 1.0
BAQB0001I: Creating service archive from configuration file /u/bulfin/EDUCHAN.properties
BAQB0006E: Failed to save service archive file /u/bulfin/EDUCHAN.sar. Reason: DFHPI9552E Value "@??@??`??????@@@@@@@@@???@??M?¨@????`?K@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@" is not a valid integer in file "//'BULFIN.CNTL.COB2(EDUSTRUC)'".

Should this work?

Answer

The error in message BAQB0006E is due to a code page mismatch. If you choose to leave the COBOL copy book on z/OS in a PDS member, you need to edit your EDUCHAN.properties file to add the optional property:

languageStructureCodePage=<Java Character Set Name>

I get the same error if I leave the EDUSTRUC in a PDS, but after I add the codepage as follows to my EDUCHAN.properties file:

languageStructureCodePage=IBM037

my job completes successfully and creates the service archive (SAR) file. These are the STDOUT messages that I get after making the change:

BAQB0000I: z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition Build Toolkit Version 1.0
BAQB0001I: Creating service archive from configuration file /u/bulfin/EDUCHAN.properties
BAQB0002I: Successfully created service archive file /u/bulfin/EDUCHAN.sar

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Product Synonym

CICS/TS CICSTS CICS TS CICS Transaction Server;zCEE

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Modified date:
14 February 2023

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