SMP/E apply errors GIM69010E, GIM69011I RETRANSFORMATION issues

Products

• ACF2 - z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Trying to SMP/E APPLY the maintenance for fixes from approximately the last 2 years, and getting multiple RC=8 and errors related to CAX1XML. 

Getting messages:

GIM69010E ** AN ERROR OCCURRED IN RETRANSFORMATION OF PRODXML xxxxxxx ON THE CAX1XML LIBRARY. DATA HAS BEEN LOST.
GIM69011I    RETRANSFORMATION OF PRODXML xxxxxxx ON LIBRARY CAX1XML WAS UNSUCCESSFUL FOR SYSMOD xxxxxxx.

 

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : ACF2 for z/OS

Cause

It was determined that the most likely cause of the problem was caused by the PTF being corrupted, possibly during the download process, causing corruption or truncation.

Resolution

To address the errors re-download the PTF identified in the GIM69010E message indicating 'DATA HAS BEEN LOST'  from the Support Portal, RESTORE the PTF, re-RECEIVE the PTF and then there-run the APPLY job .