I opened up an etr that went to an apar over a year ago. It was reportedly fixed, but I proved (again) that it wasn't. Another apar was opened. I have just opened an etr (electronic technical response) to check the status.... apar detail: (I'm not too happy, at times, with responsiveness of (not support) development in 1), "breaking" working code at times.... 2). not fixing reported problems in a timely manner (opinion). FYI Thanks Tim Item IC24451 APAR Identifier ...... IC24451 Last Changed..00/09/07 'BACKUP STORAGEPOOL WAIT=Y' RETURNS RC=0, AFTER IT FAILED Symptom ...... IN INCORROUT Status ........... CLOSED PER Severity ................... 3 Date Closed ......... 00/08/29 Component .......... 5639A0901 Duplicate of ........ Reported Release ......... 310 Fixed Release ............ 999 Component Name ADSM FOR WINDOW Special Notice Current Target Date ..99/10/22 Flags SCP ................... PC/DOS Platform ............ DOS Status Detail: Not Available PE PTF List: PTF List: Release 310 : PTF not available yet Parent APAR: Child APAR list: IY12950 PQ41315 IC27893 IC27894 PQ41316 IC27895 PQ41317 IC27896 IC27897 IC27898 PQ41318 IC27899 IC27900 IC27901 ERROR DESCRIPTION: The backup stgpool process was preempted by a higher priority process (e.g. a client restore session), when all tape drives were in use (ANR1440I). Msg ANR0985I indicated a completion state of failure and msg ANR1214I indicated, that not a byte was backed up. . The problem was recreated with AIX4.3.2, server 3.1.2.30 LOCAL FIX: check msg ANR0985I for the completition state of SUCCESS PROBLEM SUMMARY: **************************************************************** * USERS AFFECTED: * ADSM V312 Servers for all server platforms. TSM V37 and V41 for all server platforms. **************************************************************** * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: * The BACKUP STGPOOL command with the WAIT=YES parameter specified does not return a valid return code in cases where the process failed. The command returns return code 0 regardless of the outcome of the command. **************************************************************** * RECOMMENDATION: * Apply the ptf containing this fix once it is available. **************************************************************** The server BACKUP STGPOOL processing has been modified to properly report if the process failed. If it failed, the server will now report a non-zero return code to indicate the failure. PROBLEM CONCLUSION: The server process was not able to determine the outcome of the backup stgpool process for the purpose of sending a meaningful return code. The process has been altered to now report a non-zero return code if there is a failure. TEMPORARY FIX: COMMENTS: MODULES/MACROS: NONE SRLS: NONE. RTN CODES: CIRCUMVENTION: MESSAGE TO SUBMITTER: "Mark A. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/27/2000 12:12 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@SMTP@Exchange To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SMTP@Exchange cc: Subject: Re: Exit Codes from server scripts.. I would be curious too. I have called IBM regarding exit codes for dsmc command. Even on a failure it will return zero as the exit code. IBM said that the product was working as designed?????????? I always thought if there was an error that a greater than zero value was passed. But who am I to say what a return code should be. Any way I got my moaning and groaning down. Back to the subject. I have a large need to be able to check for a greater than zero value upon a failure. Mark Adams -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bruce Mitchell Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 4:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exit Codes from server scripts.. Does anyone know how to return an exit code from a server scripts that korn shell will pick up as non-zero (ie failure).. Scenario is as per the sample bkup_stg_db scripts (called from KSH). I start the korn shell script , which checks if a BKUP STGPOOL process is already running ,and if so reschedule the script for NOW+0:20. What i want is 'some kind of exit in the reschedule label' that gets parsed by ksh as 'not ok'. At the moment the KSH script picks this up as OK ,and continues rest of script. (Move drm's and prepare). I'm loath to put all into server scripts , as we want to run the ksh using Control-M scheduler and catch a result, so thought I'd ask first. TIA LONDON Tel: +44(0) 207 547 4917 Fax +44(0) 207 650 7917 Mobile +44(0) 468 361-885 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
