On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:56:47 -0400, Fletcher, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We upgraded to z/OS 1.8 and have had a few "bumps" on the way. We have >had allocation problems, numerous JES2 issues, and other miscellanous >problems. If anyone has upgraded to 1.8 and had problems could you >please share them here.
I'm starting to believe the "1.8 is buggy" noise. We are in the middle of a roll out. One sort of major VSAM problem I posted about several weeks ago. A ++APAR fix was given to us to address the problem several weeks ago (see APAR OA16372). We just IPLed a test system that is part of one of our production sysplexes and shares everything last weekend (this was the first one in this particular sysplex). We were getting 0C4 abends at HSM startup. The work around was to remove a QUERY ACTIVE command. IBM just opened APAR OA21171 for this problem. A have an upgrade scheduled on 6/9 for our production SAP LPAR. I expect no problems since it is really identical to our SAP development LPAR (which is where we ran into OA16372). The next "big event" after that will be on 06/23 where I hit a large LPAR that runs development CICS/DB2/MQ and most of our TSO users. Production jobs that don't need a production DB2 or Datacom also "float" to that LPAR (shared spool). Our WebSphere development LPAR is separate and that was upgraded last weekend with no issues as of yet. Our production "penalty box" LPAR was also upgraded, last weekend without any problems, but that LPAR runs very few software products outside of the OS. All our sandbox LPARs have been running 1.8 for a few months. But that doesn't count because if there were known unresolved problems there, we wouldn't be rolling out to development / production LPARs. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ 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
