On 10/6/2012 1:03 PM, Skip Robinson wrote:
Would not APPLY CHECK have revealed the missing PTF before any real harm had been done? If not, then never mind.
No. The APPLY CHECK would not have helped in that case. Nothing was missing and there was nothing SMP/E could have done differently. Both co-req PTFs were available and were being installed together in the same APPLY but there was an out-of-space space failure on the ZFS at APPLY time. A logic error in the z/OS UNIX install shell script caused it to do the wrong thing such that, after the space issue was resolved, a second APPLY attempt of the PTFs would always result in a deleted JDK. (The script made an invalid assumption that one of the PTFs was already fully installed because it found a "build part" from that PTF in the target directory.) The fix was to correct the erroneous logic in the z/OS UNIX install shell script. See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV05507
I recognize that, compared to the experience of some of the old-timers on this list, I've been servicing our systems this way for a relatively short time (only about 15 years or so). I'm prepared for the very real possibility that I might come across a pathological situation that will be inconvenient enough to convince me to do things differently. Or perhaps I will retire first, who knows?
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