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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories SMP/E
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 4, 2022

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z/OSMF Software Update tasks needs to wait for migrated datasets to be recalled instead of abend

z/OSMF Software Update tasks needs to wait for migrated datasets to be recalled instead of abend right away when it finds a dataset it needs, to be migrated.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     May 12, 2023

    I vote +1 for this idea, and the reasons for it are already mentioned: our SMP/e environments are also migrated by CA-Disk, causing the z/OSMF REXX to fail.

    We initially thought the failure was related to the WAITFORDSN-parameter within SMP/e, which is used for the same purpose.

    So now basically we must first create an other process, outside of z/OSMF (!), to recall all datasets.
    This is something that should be dealt with by the software, not by 'man'.

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  • Guest
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    |     Aug 26, 2022
    Thank you for the information. From the error screen capture you provided I can see you are using CA-Disk for data set migration. My understand is that there is an issue specifically with how CA Disk interacts with an application in TSO which led Software Update to stop the update process when it detects data sets being recalled by CA-Disk. The same problem does not occur for data sets migrated using IBM DFSMShsm. In any case, we will look further into the CA-Disk and z/OSMF Software Update interaction and consider enhancements and fixes to address this issue with CA-Disk in the future. Thank you.
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 14, 2022

    The error looks like this:

    Screenshot zOSM...
    Screenshot zOSMF SWU.png
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    Screenshot zOSMF SWU.png
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 13, 2022

    In our case datasets containing the SMP/E global-, target- and dlib zones will be migrated if not used for some time. When we started using SWU, the recall request was issued of course, but the z/OSMF SWU dialog did not wait for that recall to finish but it immediately abended.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 2, 2022
    Thank you for your submission. However, can you please provide more information? What data sets are migrated that you wish Software Update to wait for recall?

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