Thanks Kurt Q. for your assistance.  I'm not a systems programmer
(even though, for requirements of my job I've been granted RACF
authority to use the dreadfully dangerous SMP/E -- that *really*
ought to be fixed), so I don't know how things got out of sync,
nor where to find matching instances.  I can ask.

And, on further review, I note that GIM69217I is followed by a
Serious error for RECEIVE FROMNETWORK, but only Informational
for RECEIVE FROMNTS.

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:01:13 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote:

>"Happens all the time" ??  This should never happen unless you are testing a 
>new
>level of SMP/E via STEPLIB and don't also point to the maintenance z/OS root
>file system.  It most likely indicates that either maintenance was a applied 
>to 
>the live system or cloning the z/OS root file system wasn't done along with the
>rest of "classic" data sets for the sysres set or visa versa - maintenance 
>applied to the live root, but maintenance version of "classic" MVS data sets.
>
Is this "cloning", sometimes called "deployment" to a live system?  It seems
there's a flaw in the process if the live system is not updated by a process
identical to that used on the maintenance system.  Either the maintenance
system should be cloned to a test system and tests performed there, or
(most safely), once tests have been performed on the maintenance system,
maintenance should be applied to the production sytem by SMP/E APPLY
identically as it was done on the maintenance/test system.

None of which would have protected me: I'm nearly the only person doing
what I tried; it probably wouldn't have been tested.


>On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 22:52:40 -0600, Alan Field wrote:
>
>>This happens to me all the time. After applying maintenance to SMP/E
>>you've updated the SMPCPATH dataset which has now got out of synch with
>>the rest of SMPE.

-- gil

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