it is marked HIPER now ...
APAR Identifier ...... PK15432 Last Changed ........ 06/02/17 EXEC BINARY SEARCH ALL ... WHEN .. GIVES DIFFERENT RESULT AFTER PQ95214 IF SEARCH ARGUMENT IS LONGER THAN 06/01/19 PTF PECHANGE Symptom ...... IN INCORROUT Status ........... CLOSED PER Severity ................... 2 Date Closed ......... 06/01/25 Component .......... 568819802 Duplicate of ........ Reported Release ......... 709 Fixed Release ............ 999 Component Name LE COBOL LIB Special Notice PE HIPER Current Target Date ..06/02/22 Flags SCP ................... Platform ............ PERVASIVE DATALOSS Status Detail: APARCLOSURE - APAR is being closed. On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:35:03 -0600, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What I don't get is... at least as of right now this APAR is not >even marked HIPER (or doesn't IBM do that until the PTF is >available?). This has gone to the highest levels of management >in our organization and the question has been asked many times by >senior management: "Doesn't IBM alert you to a problem like this that >has potential for this much damage?" > >It's hard to respond to that.... yes, there was HOLDDATA and normally >someone downloads it weekly and reviews SMP/E report errorsysmods to >see potential impacts. This one was overlooked. Even if found, >by the person looking things over, I doubt the impact would have >been realized. > >In my thinking, this should have been a red alert. It seems >that those are reserved to problems that can't be resolved >without an IPL or cause an IPL. While no one likes system >outages and they can cost real money depending on the business, >data corruption is IMHO a *much worse* scenario. We recently >went though a recovery effort from a problem caused by another >vendor related to data loss/corruption. Took several weeks >of 24*7 work by a lot of people. > >Mark >-- >Mark Zelden >Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead >Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group >mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ >Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
