Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-08-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Blair Svihra wrote: APAR OA19870 As the result of IBM's AUTOTUNE feature attempting to re-open a BCS, message IEC331I 026-008(21080018) was issued by the Catalog Address Space. This error indicates that a VSAM record management error has occurred. The RPL Feedback Word (RPLFDBWD) reported by

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-08-02 Thread Tony Brown
Tom, That would certainly seem to make sense. Any fresh open for a BCS could potentially cause the incorrectly updated VVRs to be accessed. Tony -- Tony Brown DINO Software Corporation http://www.dino-software.com/ 1-800-480-DINO (3466) 410-414-9244 (direct) On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 22:22:43

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-08-01 Thread Traylor, Terry
and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair Svihra Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Damaged Catalog Alert APAR

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-08-01 Thread Tony Brown
Terry, The AUTOTUNE feature may expose the problem, but disabling AUTOTUNE will not eliminate the potential for the problem to occur. AUTOTUNE closes the BCS in the Catalog Address Space resulting in a fresh open using the updated ACB. But if anyone were to issue MODIFY

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-08-01 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 22:00:52 -0500, Tony Brown wrote: The act of re-opening the BCS causes catalog management to retrieve information from the catalog's data and index component VVRs to populate the open control blocks in CAS...and that's when the effects of the problem are realized. Then

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Schenck
Greetings all, A head's up to the non-ECS shops regarding OA19870. IBM just reopened my ETR query on this APAR with the following update: I wanted to let you know that we will be changing the text of APAR OA19870 to now also include that this apar should be applied to systems that have

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-07-30 Thread Darth Keller
A head's up to the non-ECS shops regarding OA19870. IBM just reopened my ETR query on this APAR with the following update: I wanted to let you know that we will be changing the text of APAR OA19870 to now also include that this apar should be applied to systems that have catalogs with

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-07-02 Thread Curt Thompson
Hello, I too, hit this issue not long ago. For us, we continue to leave the catalogs in ECS, but have turned off Autotune as early as possible, using the following command: F CATALOG,DISABLE(AUTOTUNING) -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-28 Thread Patty Mabie
Hi Alan, We went to zOS 1.7 a couple of weeks ago, and don't have this fix on, so it's possible we have been exposed. As I display ECS, its status is inactive, but the catalogs do AUTOTUNE. You indicated that you have turned off ECS to avoid a recurrance until you get the fix on, but the

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-28 Thread Alan Schwartz
: Damaged Catalog Alert Hi Alan, We went to zOS 1.7 a couple of weeks ago, and don't have this fix on, so it's possible we have been exposed. As I display ECS, its status is inactive, but the catalogs do AUTOTUNE. You indicated that you have turned off ECS to avoid a recurrance until

Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
We had a catalog break a little yesterday. First symptoms were an svc dump and a cluster of messages like: DUMP TITLE=CAS DYNAMIC DUMP-IGG0CLEG RC26 RSN8 IEC331I 026-008(21080018),CA0877 ,$ISDREXX,IGG0CLEG IEC331I CATALOG.MISC.UCAT IEC332I GETO,GFL ,ICDV,ACD1 IEC333I

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Alan, On what release of Z/os did this happen? From: Alan Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 6/27/2007 8:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Damaged Catalog Alert We had a catalog break a little yesterday. First symptoms were an svc dump

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 07:50 -0500, Alan Schwartz wrote: Our Storage group worked with Dino Software and we were able to get the catalog fixed. Y'know, that's not the first time I've read that. You have to like those Dino guys. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Damaged Catalog Alert

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Schwartz
) [C] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 06/27/2007 08:00 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Damaged Catalog Alert Alan, On what release of Z/os did this happen