Skip to Main Content
IBM Z Software


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Z Software products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 16, 2018

PLI_XRTDUMP=YES in TXSeries 8.2 should work like in COBOL: no CICS_CORE_ON_ASRA=1 should be necessary

CICS_CORE_ON_ASRA=1 is not recommended for productive
use as TXSeries documentation states
"... This variable must only be used on advice of IBM support
representative." presumely on a case-by-case basis only.

IBM COBOL already provides the default TRAP(ON) COBRTOPT setting.
This already generates a coredumpfile when severe signals are happening.
Setting CICS_CORE_ON_ASRA=1 is not required there!

Apparently all that PLI_XRTDUMP=YES does is NOT to modify the signal
handlers (which works in standalone PLI programs because the AIX
default settings will generate coredumps by default for fatal errors).

To achive the equivalent behaviour the PLIINITX code probably needs to
configure these signal handlers "back" to the AIX defaults; and restore
the previous handlers (established by TXseries probably) upon leaving
the PLI environment (or TXseries re-establishes their handler
preferences after EXEC CICS LINK rundown.)

However, unless explicit recommendation for productive use of
CICS_CORE_ON_ASRA=1 we cannot set this to get a consistent Post-Mortem-
Coredump for both IBM COBOL and IBM PLI 3.1 programs
even in cases where the CICSAS process will be better dead
anyway (or at least be unstable because it might as well have
overwritten foreign memory locations and should better be torn down
immediately).

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Jan 3, 2019

    this has been addressed already

  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Apr 4, 2018

    We will be doing this shortly