Congrats, Roland! You DB2/VM'ers and the z/VM folks in Endicott put a lo t of hard work into chasing this one down, obscure as it was, and now apparently nailing it.
It won't be the Titanic if the iceberg isn't there, any more. On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:53:58 -0800, Roland P. Chung <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hello DB2 Server for VM users with VMDSS enabled running in z/VM 5.30 an d above: > >VM APAR VM64775 has been opened to address the ARIYI19 09 abends encountered by DB2/VM server running with VMDSS enabled under z/VM 5.30 a nd above. > >ERROR DESCRIPTION: >An error in pageable PGMBK processing causes segments which may >contain changed pages to be skipped. This can lead to changed >pages not being saved which in turn can lead to DB2 data >corruption. > >The PTFs are now available: >R530 UM32966 >R540 UM32967 >R610 UM32968 > > >Note that this may happen in a particular workload and in a very heavi ly loaded (paging rate up to hundred of thousands pages per second) VM syste m. So far, only couple of customers had reported this kind of abends to IBM. The abends can be avoided by changing the workload. > >Please review DOC APAR PK73730 for more details. > >Regards, > >....Roland
