Problem:

We just tried to bring up a CICS region in Mainframe Express and we see this error:

  ASMER999U error: **** ASMER9999U Internal error -

  Reason Code = 006 Error status 8 returned from MF370CTL.

What does this mean?

Resolution:

It turns out that this customer used a scripted install for Mainframe Express.

The error message says to check the MF370CTL.CFG file - it should be

in MFUSER\\CONFIG, but with a scripted install the file might have been

re-located so the Windows registry entry is incorrect. For MFE31, the

Windows Registry Key is:                      

        HKLM\\Software\\Micro Focus\\Cobol\\6.0\\MFCOMMON\\3.1\\Install     

Under that location is a value for the MFUSER key. Because this user did

not have access to the Windows Registry we tried to check the MFE main

menu under Options>Project and see where the Templates option pointed,

but for our case they had just modified it so we could not tell where MFE

thought MFUSER should have been. We asked them to check another

machine's default Template directory so we would know where MFUSER

was expected to be and to also check if the MF370CTL.CFG file was

missing or corrupt because that can also cause this error.    

MFCICS might also issue this error message to the CICS console log:   

   TXSI1737W Assembler Option error - see MCO370.LOG, MF/370 rc = 0016  

as the CICS Region starts up.