Shane, what I meant with running the Health checker since we migrated to 1.6 is 
not that downloadable version. The HC fmid had been made available to be 
installed into 1.4 and up (I think), and that's what we did.

Peter, you said:
"I find it interesting that almost none of the points mentioned are known to 
the developers. That means that folks are not bringing them to our attention or 
that IBM level 2 is falling short, both being possible." 
Supposedly IBMs answer that I quoted for the XCF_SYSPLEX_CDS_CAPACITY check 
came from development. As I said before, I had attempted several times 'to be 
heard', and this is the last attempt. Did you get my email from September 11th? 
You never acknowledged it and I did not get a delivery failure.

As for "This sounds again like you're complaining that the recommendation that 
a check checks for is erroneous." What more detail for bad implementation do 
you want? IBMs glasshouse view on how customers run their systems (maybe with 
the exception of the big sysplexes that participate in the parallel sysplex 
council) is what I heard gets complained about. And I certainly felt brushed 
off when I attempted to be heard.

"We are very open to customers suggesting checks as well."
Not my experience (with one exception - Patty Salone immediately wrote the 
request). Just look at the still open ASM/HC ETR that I have. I also don't 
think that this is an issue with European support, as most of my ETRs make it 
to the same level2/3 that the US works with. But traditionally, US customers 
are more important to IBM than the rest of the world. That was the case back in 
the nineties when I did level2 work as an IBM employee, and that is still the 
case.

And now I'll really shut up - I have enough problems to explains to my 
colleagues that the few 'valid' checks complain about something that can cost 
us a system, and that *those* are not a bug in HC, and that thise that 
introduced the condition should repair it (not me just because I maintain the 
checks).

Barbara Nitz
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