Re: QNTC userid/password change?

Ed:

I'm generally aware of profile handles and tokens, though probably _FAR_ from 
your level. However, symptoms are as I described -- when it happens. Almost 
exactly a year ago was the last time I heard of it happening, on a V4R4 system 
after checking my notes. The systems programmer at that site reported the same 
issue I described. Neither CPF4AAA nor CPF22E6 are generated; instead, CPF22E7 
is returned when QWTSETP is called with the non-functional handle.

Since it is so rare and difficult to replicate and since IBM "suggested" 
resolution should be through Consult Line apparently because APIs were 
involved, I'm not aware that the issue ever went farther.

Tom Liotta

On Wed, 25 July 2001, "Ed Fishel" wrote:

> 
> 
> Tom,
> 
> >>No, I'm saying that if you run the APIs to generate and release profiles
> handles over and over long enough, eventually new handles simply won't be
> generated. Whatever gets returned simply won't work as a profile handle. I
> don't think an error is generated until the handle is used and I haven't
> heard of anything that fixes it other than an IPL.<<
> 
> I think that you may have confused profile handles and profile tokens. On
> the other hand you may have noticed an application with a bug that caused
> it to not release all of the profile handles it generated.
> 
> A profile handle is a job scoped resource. In V4R5 a single job can create
> up to 23,295 profile handles; after that, the space to store them is full,
> message CPF22E6 is sent to the application, and QSYGETPH stops generating
> profile handles. A profile handle from one job cannot be used in another
> job. An IPL is never required to generate more profile handles. A job that
> does not release the profile handles that it generates will not have any
> impact on the profile handles of any other job in the system. If a job
> releases every profile handle that it generates then there is no limit to
> the total number of profile handles that it can generate unless it tries to
> generate more than 23,295 at one time.
> 
> A profile token is a system wide resource. In V4R5 the maximum number of
> profile tokens that can be regenerated is approximately 2,000,000; after
> that, the space to store them is full and message CPF4AAA is sent to the
> application. When the space is full, no more profile tokens can be
> generated until one is removed. A profile token from one job can be passed
> to another job and used there.
> 
> Ed Fishel,
> edfishel@US.IBM.COM


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Tom Liotta
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