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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories SMP/E
Created by Guest
Created on May 16, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Expand the CONTENT option for RECEIVE ORDER to allow a more targeted (and smaller) subset of maintenance.

This enhanced request is for users of SMPE RECEIVE ORDER who want a reduced subset of maintenance to be ordered/delivered via the SMPE RECEIVE ORDER process.  For example,  CONTENT(RSU2410,RSU2411, RSU2412,RSU25*).   Currently there are only 5 options for the CONTENT keyword.   (ALL, CRITICAL, RECOMMENDED, HOLDDATA,  and PTFS/APARS for individual PTFs or APARs.)  The idea would expand the current RECOMMENDED option to allow specific RSU levels to be included in the order, thus reduced the size of the order. 

Recently I opened SR TS019243456 for the following space related error.  Annoyingly, there was no indication in the error msg provided that the underlying problem was related to the order size.    This was the msg received due to exceeding the order size limit.   ??  Improving the message processing could also be part of this enhancement. 

GIM69192S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED FOR ORDER ORD00005. AN ERROR WAS     
            FOUND IN THE RESPONSE RECEIVED FROM THE SERVER AT                  
            https://eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com/services/projects/ecc/ws/ WHEN   
            PROCESSING ORDER ORD00005 WITH ORDERID H98669919.                  
GIM69226I    faultcode = Server.Processing.                                     
GIM69226I    faultstring = com.ibm.ecc.protocol.ServerProcessing.               
GIM69226I    description = Sorry, Fix Service Provider is having problems: For  
            input string:"".          

Fortunately, I was able 2 circumvent using submitting 2 separate orders.  The 1st for CONTENT(CRITICAL) and the 2nd for CONTENT(RECOMMENDED).   The order is still huge however, it falls within the IBM order server established order size guidelines.  

Thank you.

Bob Dooley, CDW-Mgd Services, 

bob.dooley@cdw.com

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    May 19, 2025
    Thank you for the request, however, IBM will not update the SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER command to offer more granularity on the CONTENT(RECOMMENDED) option. IBM's recommendation is to perform RECEIVEs more frequently, thereby reducing the number of PTFs in each of the frequent orders. Also, as you've already discovered, submit orders for CONTENT(CRITICAL) and then RECOMMENDED, thus reducing the number of PTFs in each order.

    As an aside, we are following up with the IBM server support team to correct the response to SMP/E for orders which are too large so that SMP/E gets more specific information and can then display a more specific error message indicating the order files would be too large. The SMP/E message explanation will then suggest how to proceed.
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