IT13314: PCOM: 3270 PRIMARY HOST NAME IN WS PROFILE REPLACED BY BACKUP HOST NAME AFTER FAILOVER

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Personal Communications 3270 work station profile has a Primary
  host name, backup 1 host name and backup 2 host name configured.
  
  When the Primary and Backup 1 hosts are not available, PCOM
  will use the Backup 2 host name and show this in the Quick
  Connect Bar.
  
  When the session is closed and restarted later, the Backup 2
  host name is used as the Primary. The .WS profile shows that
  the Primary host name has been replaced by the Backup 2 host
  name.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Users of IBM Personal Communications .WS profile having      *
  * Primary and Backup Hosts configured.                         *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * The primary host information in the .WS profile is replaced  *
  * with the backup host information when fail-over action is    *
  * taken during session connection.                             *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  IBM Personal Communications emulator sessions can be configured
  to hold Primary and Backup Host information. In scenarios when
  the Primary Host fails to connect or is down, the fail-over
  mechanism tries performing a connection with the configured
  backup servers. When the session is closed, the primary host
  information in the .WS file is replaced with the backup host, to
  which the connection was established. The .WS profile will now
  have the backup server details under both the primary and backup
  server fields.
  

Problem conclusion

• This issue causes loss of primary server information from the
  .WS profile. Code changes have been made in PCSTLNET.DLL to
  ensure that the primary server information is not changed during
  fail-over.
  
  Fix scheduled for PCOM 6.0.17 Refresh Pack
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

  IT11130

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  IP24021

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  PCOMM V5 COMBO-

• Fixed component ID

  5639I700P

Applicable component levels

• R600 PSY

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