Thank you Fred! Very timely for us. FYI - Our IBM Technical Advocate says the target date is now March 9 and it is now flagged HIPER.
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Fred Schmidt Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Heads Up - z/OS 1.10 DFDSS DUMP's of z/VM and z/Linux volumes fail silently Just a heads-up to a problem we discovered today, which has the potential to bite somebody. We went to restore some z/VM and z/Linux DASD that had been backed up via z/OS 1.10 DFDSS and it failed with... IOS000I 115B,20,CMD,E7,0E00,,E3D9D2F0,LNX025,FUSREST6, 778 800000005BFFFF0400FF001400000004C800732011000F04000040E200000000 ... and ADR348E (001)-IOWD (01), PERMANENT OUTPUT ERROR ON VOLUME LNX025 E3D9D2F0,FF,0E00,800000005BFFFF04,41 ADR324E (001)-TDFP (01), THE VOLUME/DATA SET SPECIFIED BY VOLSER LNX025 HAS BECOME UNUSABLE z/OS APAR OA27531 describes the problem, which is with the DUMP of the volume, not the RESTORE. The DUMP actually completes with RC=00, so there is no indication of a problem with the backup until you try to restore from it! The current target fix date for the APAR is September. A workaround is to run the DUMP from a z/OS system at 1.9 or earlier. STEPLIB'ing to an APF-authorised SYS1.LINKLIB from an earlier release also appears to work. Regards, Fred Schmidt DCS DBE NT Government Australia
