Anyone:

Question about comments in the CSRSIIDF mapping DSECT used to map
information returned by a
​
call to the
​
CSRSI
​
service.

The DSECT has this field in it:

SI00LASTUPDATETIMESTAMP DS CL8 STCK

With these comments for the field:

​"​
timestamp when system last  re-issued STSI to retrieve the most current
information. A capacity upgrade on demand event is one event that results
in this update. The field is 0's if the information has not been
retrieved since IPL.
​"​


Our code treats a non-zero value in the above field
​
as an indication that a capacity on demand upgrade has been
​
performed
​
since the last IPL. A customer of ours had a non-zero value in the
timestamp field, even though they said they had
​_​
not
​_​
performed a capacity on demand upgrade.

The comments in the DSECT for the timestamp field make me think we should
not rely on just this field to signal that a capacity on demand upgrade has
occurred.
​


Question: is it incorrect to rely on the presence of a timestamp in the
SI00LASTUPDATETIMESTAMP field
​as an indication​
that a capacity on demand upgrade has been done?

​Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

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