I concur. The MCLs are scheduled for 5 March, the 1st VM to be converted following that, and our main VM on 18 March.
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Holder Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MCLs for z/VM 5.2 On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 00:19:49 -0600, Alan Ackerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You need J13484.112 on if you use data spaces. We got bit by that prett= y hard -- data corruption >in the DB2 catalog so bad that DB2 wold not even come up. We didn't have= any problems IPLing. > MCL J13484.112 is required whether or not data spaces are used, though th= e problem is indeed exposed by DB2's use of data spaces (which actually use= s the base space of the DB2 server virtual machine quite heavily). The problem fixed in J13484.112 is not data space specific; for example, the data space exploitation in SFS (DIRCONTROL directories) may be affected differently or not at all (though I certainly would not recommend risking= it without J13484.112). All I'm completely sure of is that I'm really not interested in having to debug any more occurrences of problems caused by = the lack of MCL J13484.112! :-) - Bill Holder, z/VM CP Development, IBM
