For those of you who are planning on installing the z/VM 5.4 z196 APARs, you may be interested in this information.
If your installation had migrated from a earlier release of z/VM (perhaps 5.1.0 or 5.2.0), there is a good possibility that you will run into the same issue that I did when attempting SERVICE ALL for the APAR maintenance envelope file. It seems that a macro file "IRAQVS MACRO" was not erased during the migration procedure. The presence of this macro causes the following errors as shown below. In order to rectify this situation, IBM recommends that you erase the macro from the MNT493 minidisk prior to running SERVICE. If you have already encountered this error, then follow the IBM recommendation above and rerun SERVICE. I hope this is helpful and it saves you the time it took for me to glean this information from IBM. As well, IBM has committed to providing this work-around in a PSP bucket. ST:VMFBLD1851I (2 of 15) VMFBDMLB processing HCPGPI EXEC O, target is ST: BUILD6 490 (L) ST:VMFMLB2219I Processing object IRAQVS ST:DMSUPD178I Updating IRAQVS MACRO K2 ST:DMSUPD178I Applying IRAQVS K64798HP J1 ST: ST:File IRAQVS K64798HP J1"" REC # 0 = ./ I 00031000 $ 32000 1000 WN:DMSUPD174W Sequence error introduced in output file: 00032000 to WN: 00032000 ST:DMSUPD177I Warning messages issued (severity = 8); REP option ignored SV:VMFMLB1965E The command, UPDATE, failed with return code 8 while SV: processing object IRAQVS. It was operating upon file SV: IRAQVS MACRO on 493 (K) ST:VMFMLB2219I Processing object VRDCBLOK ST:VMFMLB2219I Processing object HCPMDLAT ST:VMFMLB2220I Updating service history member for HCPGPI MACLIB SV:VMFBLD1851E (2 of 15) VMFBDMLB completed with return code 100. Some SV: objects were not built Joseph Di Pippo Operating Systems Programmer III FRIT Computing Services z/OS, z/VM, Hardware Support 1-201-531-3820
