>>The PTFS for apar OA19870, UA33288 and UA33289 (zOS 1.7&1.8) are >>available and you should be able to get them with the smpe receive from >>network function even while IBMLINK is down.
I should have been a little less cryptic - we've got the maintenance staged, but it's been delayed until the end of August. I was OK with this as we'd removed all our catalogs from ECS and initially that's where the problem was thought to be, but after the update IBM was to make to OA19870 that "this apar should be applied to systems that have catalogs with shareoptions (3,4). If you are sharing any of your catalogs, even without ECS, we are now suggesting that you apply the APAR. ", I'm no longer comfortable waiting. I wanted to see how IBM actually wrote the update & use that as justification to get the date moved up. I've already gone through one catalog recovery because of this and really don't want to do another one. While 'practice makes perfect', it's just no fun at all. ddk ************************************************************************************** This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. ************************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
