I suggest opening a PMR with IBM regarding this issue.  

FWIW - my guess - a side effect of a problem similar to and fixed by
IO10260.  In my opinion, this guess has a 1/3 chance of being right, and a
2/3 chance of being wrong.

Your problem illustrates for me why IBM should not have ever implemented
selection criteria in RECEIVE ORDER.  Every RECEIVE ORDER job I have ever
run has specified CONTENT(ALL).

My reasoning....

1) You're going to eventually get each PTF.  Why wait?

2) Disk space is cheap.  What if you need a PTF that came out three weeks
ago "right now" to resolve a problem, and for whatever reason, internet
download is broken or slow?

3) The attribute that helps you manage your PTFs is NOT whether or not
you've downloaded the PTF.  Rather, the attribute that helps you manage your
PTFs is the SOURCEID assigned.  If you like to age PTFs, watch the SOURCEIDs
- that's the aging process today.

4) The added complexity of the CONTENT filter command for RECEIVE ORDER
inevitably results in service instability.  Each additional feature requires
either additional testing, or runs the risk of error due to lack of testing.
 Useless features make the overall product less stable.

Just my opinion....

Brian

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 07:48:56 -0500, Chase, John wrote:

>Hi, All,
>
>Just finished re-installing Netview Access Services into a fresh (aka
>"virgin") SMP/E CSI environment, and RECEIVEd the "full" HOLDDATA which
>contained fewer than a dozen FIXCAT entries (no ERRORs) for FMID
>HNVS111.  Then I submitted a RECEIVE ORDER for CONTENT(RECOMMENDED).
>The target zone contained nothing but FMID HNVS111; no PTFs, APARs, or
>anything else.  Strangely (to me),  that job completed with:
>
>GIM69145W    NO PTFS SATISFIED THE SELECTION CRITERIA FOR ORDER
>ORD00001. ORDER ORD00001 WILL BE MODIFIED AND RESENT TO
>             THE SERVER TO OBTAIN HOLDDATA.            
>
>I modified the job to RECEIVE ORDER for CONTENT(ALL), and "of course"
>that filled up the SMPPTS (don't have an overflow defined yet).  But
>EVERY ONE of the PTFs that RECEIVEd successfully included a SOURCEID of
>RSUnnnn.
>
>Anyone have any idea why "No PTFs satisfied the selection criteria" for
>the first order?  Oh, I'm using SMP/E 35.05 on z/OS 1.9.
>
>TIA,
>
>    -jc-

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