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Your application runs in a CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) application owning region (AOR). It issues an EXEC CICS ALLOCATE command for an APPC session on a CONNECTION defined in a terminal owning region (TOR). The ALLOCATE request is shipped to the TOR. But, the task intermittently hangs in a Resource Type ALLOCATE wait.

DFHPG0001 An abend (code 0C4/AKEA) has occurred at offset X'58CC' in module DFHPGCR.

CICS Transaction Sever for VSE/ESA (CICS TS) SCS printer connects but does not have the right properties because the CQRY Query task failed with message DFHTC8510 (DFH8510). You are using IPv6/VSE from Barnard Software, Inc (BSI).

Your new C or C++ program specifies DFHNCTR as the function request. Your program fails with an error code 401 (NC_INVALID_PARAMETER_LIST) when run in CICS Transaction Sever for z/OS (CICS TS).

GIM54701E ** ALLOCATION FAILED FOR SDFHH001 - IKJ56228I PATH /usr/lpp/cicsts/cicsts42/IBM/ NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE ACCESSED.

All attempts to start CICS from the same initiator fail due to problems with fragmented MVS storage.

Draft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 3 Feb 2012

- Introducing the IBM zEnterprise ensemble and the Unified Resource Manager
- Planning for and implementing ensemble components with zManager
- Operating and managing an ensemble with Unified Resource Manager

The zEnterprise System is the first system of its kind.

Redbook, published: Fri, 3 Feb 2012

- Discusses important TCP/IP base function capabilities
- Includes base function implementation examples
- Provides techniques for installation verification

For more than 40 years, IBM® mainframes have supported an extraordinary portion of the world's computing work, providing centralized corporate databases and mission-critical enterprise-wide applications.

You receive an ABENDS0D3 in target of CICS COBOL XCTL API Command. You also see message DFHSR0001 An abend (code 0D3/AKEB) has occurred in program progname.

You are using LSRPOOLs with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS). You have a KSDS file with an index that has a control interval (CI) size of 2K, and you associate this file with an LSRPOOL that has HIPERSPACE INDEX BUFFERS of 4K. You want to know, will your records with a CI size of 2K load into the 4K HIPERSPACE INDEX BUFFERS? If not, is your only solution to redefine the CI size of the index to 4K?

You want to find all New Function (NF) APARs for a specific release of CICS Transaction Server, CICSPlex SM, CICS Explorer, CICS Dynamic Scripting, CICS Service Flow Feature, or the CICS Tools.

Voting is now open for the 2012 election of at large directors of the Drupal Association. Two directors will be elected from among the ten candidates.

About the Drupal Association elections

When we designed a new governance structure for the Drupal Association last year, we decided that most of the board is selected through a nominating committee with the goal to carefully balance many factors like needed skills and geographical and sector representation. However, it was also deemed important that we have directors chosen directly by the Drupal community to make sure that the community is always well-represented.

We're holding our first open community elections! Two community "at large" directors will be elected to the Drupal Association Board of Directors, and YOU can get to say who they are!

Where to find out about candidates

• Review their nomination profiles.
• Read the notes from the two all candidates' meetings at http://groups.drupal.org/node/207398.

Who can vote?

Voting is open to all individuals who registered an account on drupal.org prior to January 18, 2012 and who have logged into that account at least once in the one-year period prior to February 3, 2012.

There is no need to register to vote. The voting system has been set up and prepopulated with the list of eligible voters.

How to vote

• Log in to this site.
• Visit the https://association.drupal.org/2012-vote page. After clicking through, you will be asked to rank each of the eligible voters, from 1st (top choice) to 10th (last choice). You also need to check a box confirming you're an eligible voter. Make your selections and save the form. That's it!

How does voting work?

The voting is done using the "Instant Runoff" voting method, powered by Decisions module. For more about this method of voting, please see this helpful YouTube video which explains it with post-it notes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA3_t-08Vr0

Can I change my mind after I've voted?

Yes! Before the close of voting, you can return to the voting form, cancel your previous vote, and submit a new vote.

When will voting close?

Voting will close at midnight UTC on Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

How will results be determined and announced?

When voting closes, a four-member elections team will review the results and post them to this site (association.drupal.org). Results will then be forwarded to the Drupal Association board for ratification.

The election team includes Angela Byron, DA board member; Cary Gordon, DA board member; Nedjo Rogers, DA advisory board member; and Thomas Svenson, Drupal community member who participated in the community process of planning the elections.

Why was voting delayed?

We had focused a bit too much on organizing the elections and left finalizing the actual voting system till the last minute. After several community members and Drupal Association staff pitched in, we got the elections system up about 3 hours after the planned opening of voting.

Wait. Only XXX eligible voters? What gives?

Despite the fact that the voting form lists far fewer, there are actually 270K Drupal.org accounts that fit the voter eligibility criteria. Valid accounts are added to the electorate list when they visit the Association website. These shenanigans are due to the Bakery module, our single-sign on solution, and the requirement to reconcile peoples' Association.drupal.org user IDs and their Drupal.org user IDs.

Problems and solutions

If you believe you are eligible to vote and try to vote and cannot or encounter some error, please post an issue to the Drupal Association issue queue, selecting "elections" as the component.

More about the elections

• The nominations announcement.
• The elections plan.
• All elections posts.

Drupal 7.11 and 6.23, maintenance releases which fix security vulnerabilities are now available for download.

Drupal 7.12 and 6.24 also fix other issues reported through the bug tracking system.

Download Drupal 7.12
Download Drupal 6.24

Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement, more information on the 6.x releases can be found in the Drupal 6.0 release announcement. Drupal 5 is no longer maintained, upgrading to Drupal 6 is recommended.

Security information

We have a security announcement mailing list, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list.

Drupal 7 and 6 include the built-in Update status module, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes.

Bug reports

Both Drupal 7.x and 6.x branches are being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports) more maintenance releases will be made available, according to our monthly release cycle.

Changelog

Drupal 7.11 only includes fixes for security issues. Drupal 7.12 also includes bugfixes. The full list of changes between the 7.10 and 7.12 releases can be found by reading the 7.12 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 7.x branch can be found in the git commit log.

Drupal 6.23 only includes fixes for security issues. Drupal 6.24 also includes bugfixes. The full list of changes between the 6.22 and 6.24 releases can be found by reading the 6.24 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 6.x branch can be found at git commit log.

Security vulnerabilities

Drupal 7.11 and 6.23 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory:

• SA-CORE-2012-001

To fix the security problem, please upgrade Drupal.

What is included with each release?

We made two versions of both Drupal 7 and 6 available, so you can choose to only include security fixes (Drupal 7.11 and 6.23 respectively) or security fixes and bugfixes (Drupal 7.12 and 6.24). You can choose your preferred version. We are trying to make it easier and quicker to roll out security updates by making security-only releases available as well as ones with bugfixes included. We hope this helps you roll out the fixes as soon as possible. Read more details in the handbook.

Update notes

The default.settings.php file was changed in Drupal 7.12, to add documentation about PDO attribute override capabilities that were added as a result of #1309278: Make PDO connection options configurable.

The robots.txt file was changed in Drupal 6.24 to block filter tips from search engines. The .htaccess and (default.)settings.php files were not changed in Drupal 6. Additionally, indexes were added to the node_comment_statistics and comment tables, for performance.

Known issues # Drupal 7

Bug fixes in 7.12 release cause problems with the Internationalization (i18n) module. Users of these modules are encouraged to update to 7.11 to get the security fixes, and hold off on the 7.12 upgrade until the 7.x-1.4 release.

Drupal 7.12 is also only compatible with Menu Block 7.x-2.3 and higher.

Drupal 6

In Drupal 6.24, if you have the contributed user_delete module enabled on your site, the update will fail with a Cannot redeclare user_delete_access() error. An update of user_delete module is being worked on.

In Drupal 6.24 if you had locale module enabled earlier, but it is not currently turned on, the update will fail with Call to undefined function locale_inc_callback(). A fix is being worked on for Drupal core.

In Drupal 6.24 if you run your updates with Drush, you might experience duplicate entry errors in your system table. See the ongoing discussion at http://drupal.org/node/1425868

This document contains a table of APARs for CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA (CICS TS) V1.1.1. A comma separated values (CSV) file containing all the fields for each APAR is also included as an attachment. You can use the CSV file to import the list of APARs into a spreadsheet or database for sorting or downloading.

This document contains a table of APARs for CICS REXX V1.1. A comma separated values (CSV) file containing all the fields for each APAR is also included as an attachment. You can use the CSV file to import the list of APARs into a spreadsheet or database for sorting or downloading.

Elections for at large Drupal Association elections are kicking into high gear with two all candidates meetings this week before voting opens Friday.

Election candidates will participate in all candidates meetings are scheduled over the next two days (Wed., Thurs. or Fri., depending on your location). The first meeting, intended to work for people in the Asia and the Pacific, is scheduled for 01:00 UTC on Thursday. That's 5 PM PST on Wednesday for those in the US and Canada.

The second all candidates meeting at 17:00 UTC Thursday is timed for participants in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Then on Friday voting will open. Details on voting will be posted to association.drupal.org.

See the elections announcement for more on how to learn about the candidates.

The customized document templates that you used with DFHWBTTB have stopped working as expected after migrating to CICS TS