Microsoft KB Archive/176160

= APPC/CPI-C Apps Fail After SNA Server Receives UNBIND Type X'0A' =

Article ID: 176160

Article Last Modified on 9/22/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SNA Server 3.0
 * Microsoft SNA Server 2.11 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft SNA Server 2.11 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft SNA Server 3.0 Service Pack 4
 * Microsoft SNA Server 4.0
 * Microsoft SNA Server 3.0 Service Pack 2

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This article was previously published under Q176160



SYMPTOMS
An APPC or CPI-C application may occasionally fail to establish a session over a particular Local APPC LU/Remote APPC LU/Mode partnership that had previously been used successfully by the application.

Applications may exhibit different symptoms, depending on how the application is written. If the application has timeout, the application will terminate the session after the timeout has been reached. Applications that do not have a timeout may appear to hang (stop responding) while waiting for the Allocate call to complete.

SNA Application APPC API and LU 6.2 Message traces will show something similar to the following when this occurs while using an APPC application:   APPC Application                 Windows APPC DLL TP_STARTED           -> Open TP Request -> SNA Server Open TP RSP OK <- SNA Server [MC_]ALLOCATE        -> Open LU62 Request -> SNA Server If the application is not designed to time out, this problem could cause an APPC application to hang while issuing [MC_]ALLOCATE, or a CPIC application to hang while issuing CMALLC.

NOTE: These symptoms may also occur for reasons other than these described in this article, so additional troubleshooting may be required.



CAUSE
If independent LU 6.2 session limits over a particular LU/LU/Mode have not been completed or have been reset by the partner (that is, Mainframe), SNA Server will have to renegotiate CNOS. During the renegotiation process, SNA Server will send a BIND to the host over the SNASVCMG mode for the requested Local/Remote APPC LUs. If the partner rejects the SNASVCMG mode BIND with an UNBIND Type x'0A', the SNA Server could unlock the wrong Mode for CNOS negotiations. This causes subsequent CNOS attempts over the requested Local/Remote APPC LUs to fail with a Command Race Reject error. Because CNOS does not complete for the requested Local/Remote APPC LUs, applications requesting sessions over these Local/Remote APPC LUs fail to get an active session.



WORKAROUND
When this problem occurs, the SNA Server service will need to be stopped and restarted to allow applications to get active sessions over the affected Local/Remote LUs.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SNA Server versions 2.11, 2.11 Service Pack 1, 2.11 Service Pack 2, 3.0, 3.0 Service Pack 1, and 3.0 Service Pack 2.

This problem was corrected in the latest SNA Server version 3.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining this Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

A supported fix for SNA Server version 2.11 is now available, but has not been fully regression tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem. Unless you are severely impacted by this specific problem, Microsoft recommends that you wait for the next Service Pack that contains this fix. Contact Microsoft Technical Support for more information.



MORE INFORMATION
The reported instance of this problem appeared to occur after SNA Server received a large number of BIND -RSP or UNBIND messages from the host over a period of a few hours. The following is an example of the events logged by SNA Server in the Windows NT Application Event Log when receiving the BIND -RSP or UNBIND messages:

  Event ID: 18 Description: APPC session activation failure: BIND negative response or  UNBIND request received.

Sense data = 08050000 Connection =  LU alias =  PLU alias =  Mode name = 

IBM Sense Data of 08050000 indicates Session Limit Exceeded. This usually occurs when the partner has reset the session limits without informing SNA Server. This has been seen when CICS Regions on the mainframe are stopped/started. SNA Server then has to renegotiate sessions limits before an APPC application can get active sessions.

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