We put on about a year's worth of z/OS 1.10 maintenance in mid February to get things up to RSU1001++. May have included some corrective maintenance beyond RSU1001 that we could have done without, but everything seemed to be functional in our MVS test environment and looked OK to go live last weekend.
We were forced to back out maintenance after encountering a problem now being tracked as APAR OA32369, which caused an outage for us on all SNA 3174-81R and 3174-23R controllers driven through a Fast Ethernet OSA adapter on a z9. The APAR OA32369 description is totally unclear to me as to what could be affected and how persistent the problem might be, but for us none of the LU's for coax-attached dumb terminals or coax-attached 4224 printers behind these 3174 controllers would activate after maintenance. This old hardware is being gradually phased out and has been so stable for so long we didn't even have any accessible from our test system. We do now! IBM indicated the problem may have been caused by FMID HVT61A0 PTF UA51696/OA30776, which I believe is on PUT 1002 and not yet assigned to an RSU; but at least as of Friday afternoon there weren't yet any PE holds on UA51696. We have been offered an APAR fix and will look at that option next week. -- Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
