High Impact Solutions for CA Vantage r12.0

Products

• Allocate DASD Space and Placement
• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• Datacom/AD
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware
• Disk Backup and Restore - MVS
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE- ADD-ON OPTIO
• DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE

Issue/Introduction

Description:

CA Vantage Storage Resource Manager and CA Vantage Graphical Management Interface r12 Migration Considerations.

CA continually publishes product updates and corrective service for this product. The following is a list of CA Vantage PTFs that have been determined to resolve high impact situations in CA Vantage r12.0. Please review the following descriptions to determine if your system may be impacted. CA recommends the installation of these PTFs and they all are available for immediate download.

Complete problem descriptions to these solutions are available by searching for the solution number using the "Knowledge Base Search" on https://Support.ca.com.

Solution:

Solution	Release	Brief Description	Symptom	Impact	Circumvention
QO93348	r12 SP1	CREATION OF OBJECT TAPEUNIT MAY OCCASIONALLY NOT WORK, The "Dataset Name" field fails to provide the DSN when "Unit Status" is INUSE. 0C1 or 0C4 abends can occur.	OC1 or 0C4 abends under TCB OBJECTSV. VAN1536 Long Wait for SRB - Creator for object TAPEUNIT has been terminated.	May impact other address spaces	None
QO93157	r12 SP1	VAN0590E: GETMAIN FAILED DUE TO WARMSTART OF RT OBJECTS The SAMS started task fails with GETMAIN FAILED errors and repeatedly dumps and occupies a large amount of spool.	VAN0590E: GETMAIN FAILED, LEN=13,280,208 SP=000 ID=OBJAREA FOR VISTMCD VAN0590E: GETMAIN FAILED, LEN=13,280,208 SP=000 ID=OBJAREA FOR VISTMCD VAN0590E: GETMAIN FAILED, LEN=11,808,801 SP=000 ID=OBJCTMCM GETMAIN AREA	CA Vantage shuts down and is unable to restart.	Use START=COLD to bypass the Warm Start of objects.
QO95165	r12 SP1	S0C4 ABEND IN VANSMSAC +115E WITH QO93003 APPLIED When adding an SMS volume in simulate or live mode, a 0c4 abend in module VANSMSAC offset 115E occurs.	VKG0120E System Code=00C4, RC/PIC=0000003B, User Code= 0 VKG0121E Psw at Time Of Error=078D2001 953F6676 VKG0122E Active Load Module=VANSMSAC E.P.Adr.=153F5519 Offset=0000115D	SMS volumes can not be added.	None
QO95193	r12 SP1	GETMAIN PROBLEMS WHEN VTSKEEP IS SET TO A HIGH VALUE When the sysparm VTSKEEP is set to a high value (>2) and a high volume of SMF records is generated for STK VSM objects, a GETMAIN error can occur. An internal memory usage limit (high water mark) will not stop memory consumption as intended.	Memory abends after messages like: VAN0590E: GETMAIN FAILED, LEN= 10,595,652 SP=000 ID=OBJAPIBU FOR_VISSVTMU G CALLER=OBJAPI OFFSET=00002810 The MSGE log will show looping messages before: VANSMFST HWM=0001E79F VANSMFST LWM=000079E7	Memory is exhausted. SMF record handling is interrupted.	Keep SMF record objects small. Set VTSKEEP to 0
QO95168	r12 SP1	S0C4 IN COMBINED GROUP SPACE OBJECT WITH QO93003 APPLIED The creator program OBJCGCBN for the Combined Group Space object gets an 0C4 if two groups with the same name are defined in the GDEFS parmlib member.	Program OBJCGCBN gets an 0C4 abend when building the Combined Group Space object.	The user cannot view the Combined Group Space.	Use the Host Configuration Client or TSO to remove one of the duplicate groups. Do a new collect to rebuild the Primary, Secondary and Tape Groups.
QO95197	r12 SP1	CONMSG SCRIPTS NOT WORKING WITH QO93003 APPLIED The CONMSG scripts feature used in automated processing is missing messages.	With WTOEMCS (Y) console messages are not delivered to CONMSG scripts.	Console automation does not work.	Use WTOTABSZ instead of WTOEMCS to collect console messages for script.
QO95239	r12 SP1	ZOOM LIST OBJECT MISSING ENTRIES WITH QO93003 APPLIED Diagnostic object is incomplete	About 1800 zoom definitions for records beginning with O through Z are not shown when the CA Vantage Internal Management > Analysis Tools > Dictionary > Zoom List for Each Object is requested	The Zoom List for Each Object is only for analysis, so entries missing from this object are not critical, but their absence is misleading.	None
QO95486	r12 SP1	ABEND S0000 USERCODE=1 IN OBC02102 WITH QO93003 APPLIED ABEND S0000 User Code= 1 in OBC02102 for EMC Symmetrix Physical Devices	VKG0119E ESTAE Set ID=OBC02102 TCB/CDNAME=RAIDMNGR SDWANAME=RAIDMNGR VKG0120E System Code=0000, RC/PIC=00000000, User Code= 1 VKG0121E Psw at Time Of Error=078D1000 A844E628 VKG0122E Active Load Module=OBC02102 E.P.Adr.=2844D890 Offset=00000D98	No data in the 'EMC Symmetrix Physical Devices' object.	None
QO95487	r12 SP1	USER ABEND IN OBC02101 AT E72 WITH QO93003 APPLIED User ABEND 0002 in OBC02101 for EMC Symmetrix Disk Directors	User ABEND 0002 in OBC02101	No data in the 'EMC Symmetrix Disk Directors' object.	None
QO99184	r12 SP2	ABEND S0C4 IN THE OBJCHFRP MODULE WITH QO93003 APPLIED Abend s0c4-3b in the OBJCHFRP module when zooming to the Object Record Changes Report from an entry in the Object Record Changes object.	Windows Client message: Trapped Abend=0c4 under pgm=OBJCHFRP for obj=CHAFIREP Host messages: SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=0C4 REASON CODE=0000003B TIME=16.53.49 SEQ=00988 CPU=0000 ASID=0044 PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 078D0001 917A574E ILC 4 INTC 3B ACTIVE LOAD MODULE ADDRESS=117A5648 OFFSET=00000106 NAME=OBJCHFRP	The "Object Record Changes Report" object fails.	None
QO99508	r12 SP2	LOGREAD PARAMETER INCORRECTLY HONORED WITH QO90337 APPLIED When accessing Disk checkpoint (DC) mode objects, the LOGREAD parameter setting is not honored correctly. Even though these are "more objects", all data is returned at the same time, causing possible memory constraints.	Memory usage increases when accessing DC mode objects.	Possible memory problems in Vantage.	If possible, use RT mode instead when accessing the DC mode object.
QO99583	r12 SP2	ABEND S0C4-3B RUNNING GOA SCRIPT WITH QO93003 APPLIED An 0C4-3B abend occurs in EWSTOKEN when running a multi-phased GOA script.	SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=0C4 REASON CODE=0000003B PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 078D1001 9BB17350 ILC 6 INTC 3B ACTIVE LOAD MODULE ADDRESS=1BB17268 OFFSET=000000E8 NAME=EWSTOKEN	Multi-phased GOA scripts cannot complete.	None
QO99761	r12 SP2	U006 ABEND IN POOLS COMPONENT WITH QO93003 APPLIED The Pools component stops with a user abend U006 in module OBJCVOLS due to bad data returned from the IBM LSPACE service.	VKG0120E System Code=0000, RC/PIC=00000000, User Code= 6 VKG0121E Psw at Time Of Error=478D1001 97EC3180 VKG0122E Active Load Module=OBJCVOLS E.P.Adr.=17EC2039 Offset=00001147 VKG0123E Data at Psw=00181610 0A0DF35F D54BD0F8	Pools component stops working.	If possible, exclude the volumes with bad LSPACE data.
QO99762	r12 SP2	S0C4 IN GENMSGE2 CAUSED BY VANSMSAD WITH QO93003 APPLIED S0C4 abend in CA Vantage module GENMSGE2 when running a script that attempts to add a volume to a storage group by doing the ADD_SMSVOL=volume script action.	VKG0119E ESTAE Set ID=VANCMDWT TCB/CDNAME=VANCMDWT SDWANAME=VANCMDWT VKG0120E System Code=00C4, RC/PIC=0000003B, User Code= 0 VKG0121E Psw at Time Of Error=078D1001 A34327B8 VKG0122E Active Load Module=GENMSGE2 E.P.Adr.=234320F9 Offset=000006BF ... VKG0820E SDWAFLGS=40040001 SDWATRAN=7FFFFBD0 SDWAXFLG=50 VKG0830E Programs found via Save Area trace back: VKG0831E Calling CSECT=VANSMSAD (STKPGMNM) Offset=0000018D VKG0832E Calling LoadModule=VANSMSAD E.P.Adr.=2512B411 Offset=0000018C	Unable to add SMS volumes.	None
RO00829	r12 SP2	HIGH CPU USAGE IN DFSMSHSM MONITOR WITH QO95489 APPLIED With PTF QO95489, the enhanced Internal Status Monitor function, the DFSMShsm Monitor uses considerable more CPU time.	High CPU usage in DFSMShsm Monitor	High CPU usage	None
RO01527	r12 SP2	MEMORY LEAK WHEN ZOOM TO POOLVOLS AND FILTER IN GOA SCRIPT A memory leak was discovered when running GOA scripts with a zoom from Pools to Poolvols in real_time mode with filters applied and no applicable volumes are found. In addition, the filter for Poolvols is ignored and all records are returned regardless. Script fails to execute.	Memory fills up and Getmain starts failing. GETMAIN FAILED, LEN= 16,777,296 SP=000 ID=MUEWAREA Vantage may abend with S040D.	GOA script does not generate correct actions. Vantage may stop due to memory shortage.	Define the script to use Last_Interval instead of Real_Time mode.
RO02111	r12 SP2	POTENTIAL CA VANTAGE STORAGE OVERLAY IN ECSA when Raid Manager is Active	Unpredictable results. Any address space could abend.	An IPL may be required to correct corrupted storage.	Set the sysparm value RAIDSUPP (N)

Environment

Release:
Component: VANT