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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories JES2
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 16, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Enhance IAZ0543I informational message

Any application doing a socket call to bind or connect to a IP address, or to get a port number from the TCPIP stack during startup can fail with LE's error message "EDC8116I Address Not Available" for the errno. It's up to the application to provide additional details such as the reason code for the error explanation. The error message "Address Not Available" can be misleading when there is no problem with the IP address but no port was available. Example reason code for no available ports is x'xxxx7231' which means:

ErrnoJr: 29233 JRBINDNOPORT
Description: No port is available. Port entries have reached the maximum number

If the application does not provide the reason code, then the problem has to be recreated (if possible) along with application trace and TCPIP component trace (SYSTCPIP CTRACE) to get the reason code for problem determination. Note that the message explanation did reference the return code but not the reason code for more information. Here's the URL:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ieam600/idg22335.htm

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 17, 2022

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - JES2
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - JES2/JES3
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 16, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - JES2/JES3
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - JES3
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

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