Hello, I’m quite upset of the form and usefulness of some IBM announcements like this one:
IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE How do I translate an APAR number to the spectrum scale or ess release which fix it? And which versions are affected? Need I to download all Readmes and grep for the APAR number? Or do I just don’t know where to get this information? How do you deal with such announcements? I’m tempted to just open a PMR and ask ☹. This probably relates to previous posts and RFE for a proper changelog. Excuse if it’s a duplicate or if I did miss the answer in a previous post. Still the quality of this announcements is not what I expect. Just for completeness, maybe someone from IBM takes notice: All I get is an APAR number and the fact that it’s CRITICAL, so I can’t just ignore, but I don’t get * Which ESS versions are affected – all previous or only since a certain version? * What is the first ESS version fixed? * When am I vulnerable– always, or only certain hardware or configurations or ….? * What is the impact – crash due to temporary corruption or permanent data corruption, or metadata or filesystem structure or ..? * How do I know if I’m already affected, what is the fingerprint? * Does a workaround exist? * If this is critical and about a possible data corruption, why isn’t it already indicated in the title/subject but hidden? * why is the error description so cryptic and needs some guessing about the meaning? It’s no sentences, just quick notes. So there is no explicit statement at all. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203365?myns=s033&mynp=OCSTXKQY&mync=E&cm_sp=s033-_-OCSTXKQY-_-E Kind regards, Heiner -- ======================= Heinrich Billich ETH Zürich Informatikdienste Tel.: +41 44 632 72 56 [email protected] ========================
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