Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January ----- UPDATE!!!!

[Eatherly, John D [IT]]

IBM has backed off.  They created this APAR for the issue.   

APAR Identifier .. OA14708
   Last
Changed  05/12/21
  IEA307I I/O ERROR READING VOLUME LABEL
 
 
  Symptom .. MS MSGxxxStatus ... OPEN
  Severity ... 2  Date Closed .
  Component .. 5695DF111  Duplicate of 
  Reported Release . 1G0  Fixed Release 
  Component Name DEVICE SUPPORT   Special Notice
  Current Target Date ..06/02/04  Flags
  SCP ...
  Platform 
 
  Status Detail: DESIGN/CODE - APAR solution is being designed
   and coded.
 
  PE PTF List:
 
  PTF List:
 
 
  Parent APAR:
  Child APAR list:
 
 
  ERROR DESCRIPTION:
  Client received the following error during IPL for offline PPRC
  volumes.
  .
  IEA307I 3508,23, I/O ERROR READING VOLUME LABEL,00,0200,SENSE
  FOLLOWS
  .
  880E0004E5006A3436960F0E70E0
  .
  IECCINIT is at UA22489
 
  .
  DS QD,3412,SNSS
  IEE459I 16.50.11 DEVSERV QDASD 135
  UNIT VOLSER SCUTYPE DEVTYPE   CYL  SSID SCU-SERIAL DEV-SERIAL
  EF-CHK
  3412 -- 2105800 2105000  3339  3694 0175-27188 0175-27188
  BYPASS
SENSE SUBSYSTEM STATUS
  0112490100C0 4180006F F5A4
  01030010
  3694 
    1 DEVICE(S) MET THE SELECTION CRITERIA
    0 DEVICE(S) FAILED EXTENDED FUNCTION CHECKING
 
 


Thanks.

John Eatherly




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Re: Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January ----- UPDATE!!!!

[Brian Peterson]

Not sure what you mean by "IBM has backed off".  The APAR quoted does not
mention HDS, nor does it flag as PE any PTF (which means that HDS customers
are still doomed to discover their new MVS maintenance fails to IPL).

There must be more to the story

Brian

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:05:13 -0600, Eatherly, John D [IT]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>IBM has backed off.  They created this APAR for the issue.
>
>APAR Identifier .. OA14708
(snip)
>  PE PTF List:
>

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Re: Warning: PTF's require HDS microcode, which is not available until the second week of January ----- UPDATE!!!!

[Brian Peterson]

There *was* more to the story  The PE list in OA14708 today includes
all affected PTFs and the AI information (which was only on *some* of the
PTFs) has now been deleted.  In addition, under 'additional symptoms'
OA14708 describes the aspect of the problem which was specific to HDS
hardware.

Customers are now protected from inadvertently stumbling into this problem,
assuming they get current holddata prior to APPLY.  Thank you, IBM.

Brian

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:51:03 -0600, Brian Peterson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Not sure what you mean by "IBM has backed off".  The APAR quoted does not
>mention HDS, nor does it flag as PE any PTF (which means that HDS customers
>are still doomed to discover their new MVS maintenance fails to IPL).
>
>There must be more to the story
>
>Brian
>
>On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:05:13 -0600, Eatherly, John D [IT]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>IBM has backed off.  They created this APAR for the issue.
>>
>>APAR Identifier .. OA14708
>(snip)
>>  PE PTF List:
>>

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