On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:44:26 -0600, Jim Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are at z/OS V1R7 and learned (the hard way) there is a current BUG in >Extended Catalog Sharing which is still outstanding and places catalogs at >risk. Had a Development catalog broken by ECS. IBM says there are APARs >to apply and also some to come out in two weeks or so. IBM says: > >"We see in the dump that we are requesting an ENQ on >SYSZCATS that we already own. This is a symptom of >apar OA18578 whose PTFs should be available in the >next 2 weeks. In addition, the F CATALOG,CLOSE being >issued is not working properly due to the lack of >PTF UA28625. Lastly, we also suggest you apply hyper >PTF UA28375 to avoid a fairly ugly deadlock involving >ECS. > >You see the part of about OA18578 which is not available yet! We are >turning ECS off for now. The exposure is still lurking in the shadows. > >My guys are now believers in having some Catalog Recovery (FIXIT) tool >when something like this happened. When I bought it, most had never seen a >catalog broke; some were really old timers too. > >Jim > here, have only seen the issue with OA18578 happen on a tech sysplex when autoadd wasn't putting catalogs in ecs. As for the other two, (UA28626 and UA28376 for z/OS 1.8), I've already put them on the z/OS 1.8 system and IPLed one of the tech lpars with that maintenance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
