Here's another interesting problem. OA17292 is an APAR against VSAM which describes a failure to correctly invalidate buffers stored in the hiperspace cache, which can result in downlevel data replacing current data and thus is flagged DATALOSS.
The APAR text mentions IMS as being exposed. The defect, however, is within VSAM. I do not know if other VSAM LSR exploiters (such as CICS) are affected. I have asked that question. Interestingly, one of the APAR symptoms is errors flagged by an IMS pointer checker utility. I am unaware of a "pointer checker" for CICS VSAM files, so I do not know how one would know of data loss in a non-IMS environment. Keep in mind what I know about CICS (or IMS for that matter) I could easily write upon the head of a pin.... 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
