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2009-05-20 Thread Knutson, Sam
OA27112 is closed with PTFs available. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA27112   The problem was discovered here doing reporting with DAF and is bad data in the SMF type 65 record. When using DAF on z/OS 1.9 you may see some output from problems processing some type 65 records

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-03-16 Thread Big Iron
IBM has issued a flash on this subject, see http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10559 Bill On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:17:26 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/27/2007 at 10:29 AM, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-03-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/27/2007 at 10:29 AM, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Early in January Russ Witt sent the list a warning about the implications apar OA17011 could have on tape retention. We've had some discussions about this apar internally; not concerning the technical

Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
Early in January Russ Witt sent the list a warning about the implications apar OA17011 could have on tape retention. We've had some discussions about this apar internally; not concerning the technical impact but the fact that there was no hold on it. I'm not suggesting that it should have a

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:29:05 -0600, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm asking the group when you're applying preventative maintenance do you read and analyze the cover information for every ptf being applied? We've always looked at the hold info for all ptf's needing a bypass

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-02-27 Thread R.S.
Mark Zelden wrote: [...] IBM has been trying to make the amount of holddata you need to go through in order to apply maintenance, less not more. For example, changing ++ACTION holds to ++IPL so you can ignore those when applying to a maintenance sysres that you know will be rolled out with an

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 02/27/2007 10:41 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011 On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:29:05 -0600, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm asking the group when

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-01-10 Thread Steve O'Connell
Russel, can you clarify something for me please? Your sig states that you support CA-1, and in your post you say that folks running a tape management system (including CA-1) are safe, but you go on to say that you have 2 clients (by deduction CA-1 customers?) who have lost data as a

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-01-10 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Steve O'Connell steve.m.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Russel, can you clarify something for me please? Your sig states that you support CA-1, and in your post you say that folks running a tape management system (including CA-1) are safe, but you go on

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-01-10 Thread Russell Witt
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011 ...snip... I had to read Russel's text several time until I saw what he meant (I hope). He said, spread over several sentences: If you

Re: Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-01-10 Thread Mike Wood
I have sent a feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the book corrected next time it is updated. Mike Wood RMM Development On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:04:39 -0600, Steve O'Connell steve.m.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Incidentally, the IBM Redbook Enterprise Tape A Practical Guide I have says :

Warning on IBM APAR OA17011

2007-01-09 Thread Russell Witt
I wanted to give a warning regarding APAR OA17011 (closed, with published PTF's available). There has been a hole in IBM SMS Managed Tape for a long time (day-1 possibly), were the Retention Limit value in the Management Class was not enforced. So, if the Retention Limit was 0 and the JCL said

z/OS R7 Migration - IBM APAR: OA17875

2006-10-03 Thread Glenn Miller
FYI, Update on our z/OS R4 to z/OS R7 migration. We have encountered another issue that appears to match the symptom that is described by IBM APAR: OA17875. We haven't installed the PTF on the z/OS image that experienced the problem, so that is why I indicated 'appears to match'. I spoke to IBM

Re: z/OS R7 Migration - IBM APAR: PK20133

2006-09-28 Thread Robert Justice
The fis for PK20133 is on 0604 maintenance tape. how far backlevel is your z/OS 1.7 system? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS R7 Migration - IBM APAR: PK20133

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:45:40 -0500, Glenn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So my question is: Do you apply ALL PTFs from the PSP bucket? Yes - all applicable PTFs (some may be for FMIDs you don't have). That is the whole idea of having them. Since there are PTFs that show up in the PSP

Re: z/OS R7 Migration - IBM APAR: PK20133

2006-09-28 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:25 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: Since there are PTFs that show up in the PSP buckets daily, how do you reasonably 'keep up' with these PTFs? Review / apply them at install time. Then it depends on how long it takes to move from your sandbox / test systems. I would

z/OS R7 Migration - IBM APAR: PK20133

2006-09-27 Thread Glenn Miller
FYI, Update on our z/OS R4 to z/OS R7 migration. We believe we have encountered the problem that is described by IBM APAR: PK20133. We are having the corruption to the CICS EIBTIME area as described in the APAR. Our plan is to apply the PTF to our z/OS R7 system this weekend and re-test

Alert! IBM APAR OA17290 for FDRABR Users on z/OS V1.7

2006-07-26 Thread Ben Alford
FDRABR users on z/OS V1.7 and up need to look at IBM HIPER APAR OA17290. It closed on July 24, 2006. Ben Alford Enterprise Systems Programming University of Tennessee -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Alert! IBM APAR OA17290 for FDRABR Users on z/OS V1.7

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Dineen
Thanks Ben. This FDRABR customer with an August z/OS 1.7 production implementation planned appreciates the 'heads up'. Just wondering...Did you actually experience the problem or identify the APAR via proactive monitoring of service availability? Paul

Re: Alert! IBM APAR OA17290 for FDRABR Users on z/OS V1.7

2006-07-26 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ben Alford wrote: FDRABR users on z/OS V1.7 and up need to look at IBM HIPER APAR OA17290. It closed on July 24, 2006. Darn those pesky IBM developers! They just keep allocating new control block bytes from the areas reserved for ISVs! ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: Alert! IBM APAR OA17290 for FDRABR Users on z/OS V1.7

2006-07-26 Thread Liliane L. Clever
Thanks for the info. Liliane At 09:30 AM 7/26/2006, Ben Alford wrote: FDRABR users on z/OS V1.7 and up need to look at IBM HIPER APAR OA17290. It closed on July 24, 2006. Ben Alford Enterprise Systems Programming University of Tennessee Liliane Clever SunGard

Re: Alert! IBM APAR OA17290 for FDRABR Users on z/OS V1.7

2006-07-26 Thread Bruce Black
FYI, we are in the process of preparing an email to our FDRABR customers to notify them of this APAR and two child APARs. Note that the PTFs are not yet available but ++APARs are available for two of the APARs. -- Bruce Black Senior Software Developer Innovation Data Processing

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread John Eells
Ed Gould wrote: Some other sysprogs that I know don't know about it but they don't go SHARE. I would hate to think that this apparently nice facility is limited to SHARE attendees. I am not against this per se.. C'mon, Ed. Of course it's not limited to SHARE attendees. Why would we want

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:18 AM, John Eells wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Some other sysprogs that I know don't know about it but they don't go SHARE. I would hate to think that this apparently nice facility is limited to SHARE attendees. I am not against this per se.. C'mon, Ed. Of course

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
to - it's up to you to learn). Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM APAR On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:18 AM, John Eells wrote: Ed Gould

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: HOLDDATA has indeed been around for quite a while (and a big improvement it was over EXCLUDE lists, too). However, Enhanced HOLDDATA, which includes HOLDs for HIPERs, has not been around for 20 years. In fact, the pre-GA pilot progam wasn't even 20 years ago (more like

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
, Wisconsin - Original Message - From: John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:18 pm Subject: Re: IBM APAR To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU John Eells wrote: I should have mentioned, though, that SMARTMVS, on which Enhanced HOLDDATA was built, was around well before

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/13/2006 1:03:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What was SmartMVS? I don't recall ever hearing about that. Or maybe I just forgot. Was that something you had to pay for? Maybe it was one of those things only available at Share. (A little

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 12:18 PM, John Eells wrote: John Eells wrote: HOLDDATA has indeed been around for quite a while (and a big improvement it was over EXCLUDE lists, too). However, Enhanced HOLDDATA, which includes HOLDs for HIPERs, has not been around for 20 years. In fact, the pre-GA

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) wrote: Ed, pay attention. John could not have stated it any more clearly : Of course it's not limited to SHARE attendees. But you come right back and say that it is. Of course the only people who know about it are SHARE people or

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould [ snip ] A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM APAR On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) wrote: Ed, pay attention. John could not have stated it any more clearly : Of course it's not limited to SHARE attendees. But you come right back

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Bob Shannon
I haven't attended SHARE in 12 or more years. Gee Don, how's it look for Baltimore this summer? Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/13/2006 2:38:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to inform the community of good information. Ever hear of the Internet? Plenty of other businesses have discovered yet another way to reach

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Brian Peterson
SMARTMVS was an IBM offering apparently available in Europe. From the current SMP/E User's Guide: The format of the HOLDDATA provided by the SMARTMVS service in Europe or the Electronic HOLDDATA service in the U.S. is not compatible with z/OS Enhanced HOLDDATA and does not take advantage of the

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to inform the community of good information. IBM did it to themselves when they got rid

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould [ snip ] A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:50:39 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Chase, John wrote: Ever hear of the Internet? John, Yea and its a pretty big place isn't it? Ed But not endless: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer PH Mining Equipment 414-671-7849 Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Original Message - From: Brian Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 13, 2006 1:47 pm Subject: Re: IBM APAR To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU SMARTMVS was an IBM offering apparently available in Europe

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Wayne Driscoll
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IBM APAR On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:18 AM, John Eells wrote: Ed Gould wrote: Some other sysprogs that I know

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread James Smith
March 2006 04:38 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM APAR On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) wrote: Ed, pay attention. John could not have stated it any more clearly : Of course it's not limited to SHARE attendees. But you come right back and say

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: A key point that everyone seems to be missing is that SE's (and they like) have essentially disappeared in the late 80's and early 90's. There is no longer a way that IBM can reach out to inform the community of good

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: I went to www.ibm.com entered red alerts on the search box, and the first search result is a link to subscribing to Red Alerts (ok, 2 links, since the article referenced an older page, but I was redirected). Wayne Driscoll Product Developer

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:10 PM, James Smith wrote: Ed I actually agree with parts of your argument but as an outsider you lose a lot of credibility with your constant negative ranting about SHARE. Was it not you who told a poster to refrain from constantly reminding us of his ex-wife?

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-06 Thread Ulrich Boche
Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Ed, https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/redAlerts And it works ! Well, z/OS Red Alerts are not a highly used facility. There have been just 4 (four) in 2005 and none so far this year. I'm subscribed but, from time to time, I wonder if the service is still

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: [ snip ] Red Alert? https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/redAlerts/ Ed, Its an idea.. but in all honesty this is the first time I

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-06 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Ulrich Boche wrote: Well, z/OS Red Alerts are not a highly used facility. There have been just 4 (four) in 2005 and none so far this year. I'm subscribed but, from time to time, I wonder if the service is still alive and go checking. It is still alive. I saw Jerry Ng here at SHARE yesterday

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-06 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Chase, John wrote: -SNIP It's only been around for 3 - 4 years, maybe longer I am still liking the hyper doc (or new classification like installation?) type since it goes the SMP/e rout which everyone knows about. ??? Some

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-04 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Ed, the advantage of RedAlert is that you get notified when there is one. Push-technic in stead of pull. I prefer the push way in such matters. jan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-04 Thread Chris Mason
. Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, 03 March, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: IBM APAR There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-04 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Chris Mason wrote: This is a resend since I can see no trace of my original post but maybe some others have. Ed, Edward Jaffe gave you the definitive answer as far as I can see having peeked at the web page. Surely the almost as important question here is why

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Surely the almost as important question here is why your local IBMers didn't know to give you this answer. Ed is retired. And, claiming the old ways/problems are still happening. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in!

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-04 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 4, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Surely the almost as important question here is why your local IBMers didn't know to give you this answer. Ed is retired. And, claiming the old ways/problems are still happening. This was from the RACF list *NOT* from my experience

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-04 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption possibility). Someone suggestion a HIPER doc APAR IBM came back and said they would not make a HIPER doc APAR, nor

IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Ed Gould
There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption possibility). Someone suggestion a HIPER doc APAR IBM came back and said they would not make a HIPER doc APAR, nor apparently is there a INFO APAR allowed to be HIPER. Anybody have a suggestion

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:42:43 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption possibility). Someone suggestion a HIPER doc APAR IBM came back and said they would not make a HIPER doc APAR, nor apparently is there a INFO APAR

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Ed Gould wrote: There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption possibility). Someone suggestion a HIPER doc APAR IBM came back and said they would not make a HIPER doc APAR, nor apparently is there a INFO APAR allowed to be HIPER. Anybody have a

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Ed, https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/redAlerts And it works ! jan There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption possibility). Someone suggestion a HIPER doc APAR IBM came back and said they would not make a HIPER doc APAR, nor

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Mark Thomen
Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption possibility). Someone suggestion a HIPER doc APAR IBM came back and said they would not make a HIPER doc APAR, nor apparently is

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Ed Gould wrote: There is a discussion going on another list on how to identify a *HIGH* (data base corruption possibility). Someone suggestion a HIPER doc APAR IBM came back and said they would not make a HIPER doc APAR, nor apparently is

Re: IBM APAR

2006-03-03 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Mark Thomen wrote: -SNIP-- Catalog uses CATBREAKER, VSAM uses DSBREAKER - don't know what component you're talking about, so can't answer the question. Any CATBREAKER/DSBREAKER is marked HIPER. Mark, Thanks, maybe RACF