Heard at SHARE in Seattle.... IBM SMP/E APAR IO11698 introduces a new SAF FACILITY class which you must define in order to allow any use of SMP/E after you install and activate the corresponding SMP/E PTF for your release. In my case, that would be PTF UO01052 for SMP/E 3.5.
If you do not define this FACILITY class prior to installing the SMP/E PTF on your system, SMP/E will fail with various messages based on the function being attempted. Imagine what could happen - you install the PTF, and now SMP/E stops working. How do you back off the PTF without running SMP/E's RESTORE command? Ok - so there are a half dozen ways, but my point is - why wait, be prepared. Several folks mentioned this APAR in public presentations during SHARE, including IBM's Marna Walle in her excellent z/OS Migration (Part 1) presentation. http://ew.share.org/proceedingmod/abstract.cfm?abstract_id=20896 http://ew.share.org/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in__Seattle/S2222MW100304.pdf See page 50 of the Marna's PDF (above) for more details. Please note that you won't see APAR IO11698 itself in IBMLink as it is apparently an "integrity" APAR. The (fortunately) rare "integrity" flag excludes flagged APARs from display in IBMLink or other such "public" sources. All you will find when searching on IO11698 in IBMLink is the list of SMP/E PTFs for this APAR for each release of SMP/E. The documentation for the required FACILITY class profile is included in Marna's SHARE presentation, and in the ++ HOLD data for the SMP/E PTF appropriate for your release of SMP/E. At this time, public references to IO11698 are rare. Even mighty Google (or Topeka, if you are looking at it on April 1, 2010) has only one relevant reference to IO11698 - a reference to the IBM APAR on CA's Support web site (the document is RI16678 if you want to check out the document yourself for instructions how to define the new security calls to CA security software TopSecret and ACF2). I found one other public IBM reference, within the PSP bucket for z/OS 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11, which simply reads as follows: 1. 10/03/16 With APAR IO11698, SMP/E has implemented a change. Please see the HOLD for ACTION and HOLD for DOC for information regarding this change. Take action NOW. Don't wait until you get a system with this PTF installed and then discover that you are locked out of SMP/E. Or, sit back - wait six months, and watch the panic/complaint threads start here on IBM-MAIN.... Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
