You might look at UM32894, in the PSP bucket for RSU903. It was the
only thing that came up (resolves two APARs) when I searched IBMLink
for "flashcopy z/VM 5.4"

Ron

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:51 PM, C. Lawrence Perkins
<vmwiz...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Yes, I just went "live" with z/VM 5.4 at RSU 901 and I'm experiencing the
> exact same problem.
>
> There's no "Command started" message, there IS a "Command completed"
> message, and the FLASHCOPY doesn't run, it can't be seen with a Q FLASHCOPY
> and it can't be seen in the Copy Services GUI of the Shark's Specialist app.
>
> CPU is a z800, Shark is a 2105-800.  I've searched the PSP buckets and
> there doesn't seem to be any PTF/APAR against this problem in RSU's after
> 901, maybe I just didn't see it.   Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:08:07 -0400, Hans Rempel <h...@hmrconsultants.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I upgraded to z/VM 5.4 with new release of VMSECURE 8.2 (not sure if
>>VMSECURE makes any difference). We are using Version 1 (ugh) on F20 shark.
>>
>>
>>
>>Tried to run the FLASHCOPY command and received reply command complete but
>>accessing new volume I noticed the label has not even changed. No command
>>started message.
>>
>>
>>
>>Open a PMR with IBM.
>>
>>
>>
>>Just for kicks I tried it on my second level z/VM 5.2 system and received
>>both messages.
>>
>>
>>
>>Command started:
>>
>>Command completed:
>>
>>
>>
>>And the flash actually worked.
>>
>>
>>
>>Anyone else encountered something this strange?
>>
>>
>>
>>Hans
>

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