BPXF106E RETURN CODE 00000085, REASON CODE EF01604E

Products

• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Installing Common Services (CCS) 15.0 and running job AW080APM to apply the latest maintenance. Some PTFs fail the apply due to BPXF106E.

CAUSER   FMID     MESSAGE ID  PAGE   ERROR DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE CAUSES

SO14954  CFF6F00  GIM69168E      2   HFSCOPY PROCESSING FAILED FOR HFS yyyyyJAR TO THE CFF6PLAT LIBRARY. THE RETURN
                                     CODE WAS 12. THE SEQUENCE NUMBER WAS 000005.

SO16027  CFF6F00  GIM69168E      2   HFSCOPY PROCESSING FAILED FOR HFS zzzDIAGA TO THE CFF6PLAT LIBRARY. THE RETURN
                                     CODE WAS 12. THE SEQUENCE NUMBER WAS 000006.

BPXF151I BPXCOPY WAS INVOKED FOR HEAD ID 000005.
BPXF106E RETURN CODE 00000085, REASON CODE EF01604E.  AN ERROR OCCURRED DURING THE WRITING TO HFS FILE /u/CCS/CA/yyyyFJAR.
BPXF151I BPXCOPY WAS INVOKED FOR HEAD ID 000006.
BPXF106E RETURN CODE 00000085, REASON CODE EF01604E.  AN ERROR OCCURRED DURING THE WRITING TO HFS FILE /u/CCS/CA/zzzDIAGA.

It doesn't appear to be a space issue, as the dataset is only in 4 extents, and the volume where it resides has plenty of free space:

CFF6PLAT CFF6PLAT          PATH    '/u/CCS/CA/'
                           PATHHFS cai.xxx.15####.####.xxxZFS

- Enter "/" to select action                        Tracks %Used   XT
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 cai.xxx.15####.####.xxxZFS
 cai.xxx.15####.####.xxxZFS.DATA                    ####    #      #

ALLOCATION
  SPACE-TYPE------CYLINDER
  SPACE-PRI-------------75
  SPACE-SEC-------------25
VOLUME
  VOLSER------------volser

Volume . : volser
Unit . . : unit
 Volume Data             VTOC Data              Free Space   Tracks    Cyls
 Tracks . :  ###,###     Tracks  . :        ##  Size  . . :  ##,###   #,###
 %Used  . :       %      %Used . . :        %   Largest . :  ##,###   #,###
 Trks/Cyls:      ##      Free DSCBS:     #,###  Free
                                                Extents . :      ##

Environment

Release : 15.0
Component : CCS390 - COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS

Cause

Description: General VM cache failure.                                      
                                                                            
Action: If the return code is ENOSPC (133), the file system or aggregate is
full. If this is the case, make more space available. Otherwise, contact the
service representative.

Note: DECIMAL 133 is a HEX 85

Resolution

While the allocation for the zFS file system appears to be adequate, for some reason the filesystem was not taken additional extents to accommodate the needed size to hold the changes introduced with the maintenance.

The circumvention is to allocate a larger zFS filesystem to avoid the need to take extents, and copy the contents of the original zFS into the newly allocated zFS.

Follow-up with IBM for any known problems an/or solutions.