Problem Note 60730: Initialization of SAS® results in system abend 0C4 when there are no General Processors configured within the first 16 Central Processors
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During initialization when SAS is validating the license, it scans the Physical Configuration Communication Area (PCCA). However, it limits this scan to the first 16 Central Processors (CPs). If SAS does not find a General Purpose (GP) processor within the first 16 CPs, then SAS fails to initialize and terminates with RC U0999. To circumvent this issue, ensure that a GP processor is varied online within the first 16 CP slots.
In SAS® 9.4M5 (TS1M5), which is where the original issue noted above was addressed, SAS initialization might fail with RC=0998. In this scenario, a symptom dump in the JOBLOG shows System Completion Code=0C4 in module SASHOST (depending on the entry to SAS that is used, this could be SASXA1 or SASXAL).
Symptom dump output looks similar to the following:
SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=0C4 REASON CODE=00000010
TIME=01.41.44 SEQ=00362 CPU=0000 ASID=02CB
PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 078D3000 AA391330 ILC 4 INTC 10
ACTIVE MODULE ADDRESS=00000000_2A3696F8 OFFSET=00027C38
NAME=SASHOST
DATA AT PSW 2A39132A - FFE758A0 60AC58B0 A0305820
AR/GR 0: 0000005B/00080000 1: 00000000/00012BF0
2: 00000000/00000000 3: 00000000/8000A000
4: 00000000/2A3964F8 5: 00000000/2A3911B4
6: 00000000/0000B108 7: 00000000/00012418
8: 00000000/2A3C2918 9: 00000000/00080000
A: 00000000/F0F8F0C6 B: 00000000/8000A000
C: 00000000/8000A000 D: 00000000/00012C10
E: 00000000/2A36DB48 F: 00000000/2A3911B4
END OF SYMPTOM DUMP
The abend occurs due to a LOAD instruction mapping off Register 10, which has EBCDIC data (in the above dump, this is the x'F0F8F0C6'). This behavior occurs due to a storage overlay because of encountering more than 16 CPs during initialization.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS 64-bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M8 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
| z/OS | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M8 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||