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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories z/OSMF
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 5, 2026

Writing & reading several records to/from a data set w/ multi-byte encoding causes TSO servlet timeout

Using the z/OSMF ReST API, writing 810 or more records to a data set with a multi-byte encoding (such as IBM-937) causes the request to timeout after the given response timeout has elapsed.

  1. Create a physical, sequential data set NEW.DATASET with the default block size, lrecl, etc.

  2. Given the following request body, prepare a PUT request to the endpoint /zosmf/restfiles/ds/NEW.DATASET
    你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世
    你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世
    你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世界你好世
    ...(repeat the sequence above, until you have at least 810 lines)

  3. Specify the following headers for the request:
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
    X-IBM-Data-Type: text;fileEncoding=IBM-937
    X-IBM-Response-Timeout: 300

  4. Notice that once the request is sent, the request seemingly hangs until the response timeout has elapsed

  5. Once the response timeout has elapsed (default being 30 sec), the following JSON object is returned with a 500 Internal Server Error:

{
"rc": 4,
"reason": 1,
"category": 2,
"message": "receiveResponseHeader: timeout receiving response (>300 secs): TsoServerConnection(USER=TRAE, ASID=0x007c, QID=0x00260012)"
}


If you adjust the request body so it only uploads 809 lines, the request succeeds without any error within a matter of seconds.

The same issue occurs when reading a data set with 1620 or more lines using the same multi-byte encoding. The only difference for testing this scenario is using GET for the request method instead of PUT, and not including a body with the request.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Mar 30, 2026

    We are also seeing this bug in some customer environments with single-byte codepages and uploads greater than 809 lines. Given that the issue is encountered by multiple customers and multiple products, could we revisit the priority of this issue?

  • Guest
    Feb 25, 2026

    在 PoC 測試期間,這樣的訊息降低了我們對系統穩定性的信心,也讓我們對於導入存有疑慮。

  • Guest
    Feb 24, 2026

    As an IBM Brand Technical Specialist (BTS) supporting clients in Taiwan, I would like to highlight that this issue is already causing concrete field impact.

    Several PL/I customers currently evaluating IDzEE — especially those choosing the z/OSMF connection mode — have encountered confusion during testing. The generic 500 error message leads customers to interpret the issue as system instability rather than a timeout condition.

    This has resulted in additional troubleshooting effort and reduced confidence during PoC phases.

    Clearer timeout-specific messaging would significantly improve customer experience, evaluation efficiency, and trust in the z/OSMF connection option.

  • Guest
    Feb 23, 2026

    Problem can be reproduced with Zowe Explorer in vscode with a COBOL member having 4000 lines of the following comment:

          * 你好世界,你好世界,你好世界,你好世界,你好世界,你好世界

    The zOSMF IZUFPROC job consumes a lot of CPU and terminates with an abend S222 after the timeout:

    08.56.00 TSU12805  BPXP018I THREAD 1356680000000000, IN PROCESS 50466091, ENDED  299
      299             WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE 40222000
      299             , AND REASON CODE 00000000.
    08.56.00 TSU12805  IEF450I USER1 IZUFPROC IZUFPROC - ABEND=S222 U0000 REASON=00000000  300