We had this problem when we tried to test end-of Year with our appplication test Sysplex and ++Apar OA48941 resolved it. Following the link also gets a time out here just now..
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Shorkend Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 8:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Unicode Red Alert Last night , I received the following red alert: <start of alert> Dear Subscriber Here are your bulletin email notifications for your subscriptions at IBM My notifications. Visit the recently updated IBM Electronic Support site to get connected with our powerful online tools, tips, and resources. Your support notifications display in English by default. Machine translation based on your IBM profile language setting is added if you specify this option in My defaults within My notifications. (Note: Not all languages are available at this time, and the English version always takes precedence over the machine translated version.) z/OS family - all hardware, OS, and related software: Red Alerts • z/OS Unicode Services Conversion Information Service fails after 12-15-20 http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts?myns=z000&mynp=OCHW188&mynp=OCHW18N&mynp=OCHW19Y&mynp=OCHW20L&mynp=OCHW22D&mynp=OCHW23D&mynp=OCHW25D&mynp=OCHW30D&mynp=OCSWG90&mynp=OCSWG80&mynp=OCSWGA0&mynp=OCSWGB0&mync=E&cm_sp=z000-_-OCHW188-OCHW18N-OCHW19Y-OCHW20L-OCHW22D-OCHW23D-OCHW25D-OCHW30D-OCSWG90-OCSWG80-OCSWGA0-OCSWGB0-_-E Unicode Services conversion information service on all current z/OS releases will return incorrect return code on systems IPLed on or after December 15, 2015 affecting many system services and applications. Action is required to prevent failures To read the complete text of this Red Alert as well as previous Red Alerts please use the above link. <end of alert> When I try to follow the link, the page crashes. When I try to access the IBM red alert page https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/home.html the browser times out..... Has anyone else received this alert? Managed to access it online? I have contacted IBM and I am wating for an answer from them. Thanks Mike -- Mike Shorkend m...@shorkend.com www.shorkend.com Tel: +972524208743 Fax: +97239772196 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
