Thanks Fred! Going to z/OS 1.10 this year.
Thanks, Nick From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Heads Up - z/OS 1.10 DFDSS DUMP's of z/VM and z/Linux volumes fail silently Just a heads-up to a problem we discovered today, which has the potential to bite somebody. We went to restore some z/VM and z/Linux DASD that had been backed up via z/OS 1.10 DFDSS and it failed with... IOS000I 115B,20,CMD,E7,0E00,,E3D9D2F0,LNX025,FUSREST6, 778 800000005BFFFF0400FF001400000004C800732011000F04000040E200000000 ... and ADR348E (001)-IOWD (01), PERMANENT OUTPUT ERROR ON VOLUME LNX025 E3D9D2F0,FF,0E00,800000005BFFFF04,41 ADR324E (001)-TDFP (01), THE VOLUME/DATA SET SPECIFIED BY VOLSER LNX025 HAS BECOME UNUSABLE z/OS APAR OA27531 describes the problem, which is with the DUMP of the volume, not the RESTORE. The DUMP actually completes with RC=00, so there is no indication of a problem with the backup until you try to restore from it! The current target fix date for the APAR is September. A workaround is to run the DUMP from a z/OS system at 1.9 or earlier. STEPLIB'ing to an APF-authorised SYS1.LINKLIB from an earlier release also appears to work. Regards, Fred Schmidt DCS DBE NT Government Australia
