APAR Identifier ...... II03019 Last Changed ........ 00/03/29 PSF/VM MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. Symptom ...... IN INFO Status ........... CLOSED CAN Severity ................... 4 Date Closed ......... 87/07/29 Component .......... INFODNLIB Duplicate of ........ Reported Release ......... 001 Fixed Release ............ Component Name DN LIB INFO ITE Special Notice Current Target Date .. Flags SCP ................... Platform ............ Status Detail: Not Available PE PTF List: PTF List: Parent APAR: Child APAR list: ERROR DESCRIPTION: 566419801 568414101 PSF/VM PSF THIS APAR CONTAINS INFORMATION ON MISCELLANEOUS PSF/VM PROBLEMS. SYMPTOM 1 -- GROUP3 PDM HANGS. AFFECTED -- PSF/VM RELEASE 1.2.0 USERS WITH A GROUP3 PDM. WHEN USING A VIRTUAL ADDRESS GREATER THAN X'5FF', THE GROUP3 PDM HANGS. THIS PROBLEM IS CORRECTED BY APAR VM28416, AVAILABLE ON THE 8802 PUT TAPE. SYMPTOM 2 -- MSGCSIOP308E OPEN ERROR 22 ON PAGERECD AFFECTED -- ALL PSF/VM USERS WITH A D/T3820 PDM THE PAGE RECORD FILE (38PPPAGE) ON THE SFCM'S A-DISK HAD AN LRECL GREATER THAN 32500. INSURE THAT NOOPT (NO OPTIMIZE) IS SPECIFIED ON EITHER THE PSF COMMAND LINE OR IN AN OPTIONS FILE. SYMPTOM 3 -- MSAPRGRE346S CP LINK COMMAND FAILED AFFECTED -- ALL PSF/VM USERS RUNNING ON A XA/SP SYSTEM THE USER IS ATTEMPTING TO SPECIFY SEVERAL RESOURCES ON THE PSF COMMAND LINE. THE SFCM IS NOTIFIED OF SOME OF THE RESOURCES, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM. CP APAR VM38562 ADDRESSES THIS PROBLEM. SYMPTOM 4 -- MSAPROPR336W MSCSIGLB024E RPIGCS LOADLIB NOT FOUND AFFECTED -- PSF/VM RELEASE 1.3.0 GROUP3 OR GROUP4 PDM USERS. IF RACF IS NOT INSTALLED, THIS IS A NORMAL ERROR MESSAGE DURING PDM INITIALIZATION. THE PDM SHOULD STILL FUNCTION PROPERLY. SYMPTOM 5 -- D/T3812 PUNCH FILE APPEARS IN READER OF THE PDM. AFFECTED -- USERS WITH A D/T3812 PDM. ENSURE THAT THE CPU SERIAL NUMBER CONTAINED IN THE RESPONSE TO 'QUERY CPUID' COMMAND HAS A CORRESPONDING VALID ENTRY IN THE 'SYSTEM NETID' FILE. SYMPTOM 6 -- MULTIPLE. EACH WILL BE ADDED AS ENCOUNTERED... FILE APRMSGSC MISSING ON THE SFCM AFFECTED -- ALL PSF/VM 1.3.0 USERS. THE 9101 PUT TAPE AND ALL PREVIOUS TAPES 'DO NOT' CONTAIN ANY MAINTENANCE FOR PSF/VM 1.3.0. THE INSTALLATION OF A PUT TAPE WILL DOWN LEVEL PSF/VM AND THE PRODUCT MUST THEN BE RE-INSTALLED. NOTE: THIS ITEM WILL BE UPDATED AS EACH PUT TAPE IS RELEASED AND THE PUT BUCKET WILL ALSO BE UPDATED. SYMPTOM 7 -- GROUP4 PDM HANGS AFFECTED -- ALL GROUP4 PDM USERS RUNNING ON D/T9375 WITH THE PRINTER ATTACHED TO THE WORK STATION ADAPTER. INSTALL D/T9375 MICROCODE EC LEVEL A83476. SYMPTOM 8 --- MSAPRSER259I SENSE X'0223' SNS0223 MICR FONTS CAN ONLY BE USED ON D/T3835 AND D/T3828. (SENSE INDICATES INVALID FONT) SYMPTOM 9 -- MSAPRPFE558T RC087402 ERROR IN CONNECTING IUCV. AFFECTED -- PSF/VM USERS ADDING GROUP4 PRINTERS. WHEN ADDING GROUP4 PRINTERS, ENSURE THAT MAXCONN IS CHANGED TO REFLECT THE CORRECT VALUE WHICH IS CALCULATED AS THE NUMBER OF ATTACHED PRINTERS PLUS 3. MAXCONN IS CODED IN THE GROUP4 PDM VM DIRECTORY ENTRY. THE DEFAULT VALUE IS 4. SYMPTOM 10 -- PSF/VM 1.3.0 SERVICE ON PUT 9102 CONTAINS APAR PL66391. THIS APAR HAS A CMS REQ THAT IS DOCUMENTED IN THE RESPONDER TEXT. IF THE CMS REQ IS NOT INSTALLED, THE SFCM ABENDS WITH THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE: MSDMSITP141T OPERATION EXCEPTION OCCURRED AT LOCATION 000006 IN ROUTINE APRSFCMC. BESIDE THE SFCM ABENDING, THE D/T3800 PDM AND GROUP3 PDM WILL ALSO ABEND. THESE SAME SYMPTOMS WILL OCCUR AFTER INSTALLATION OF VM/PSF 2.1.0 IF VM38985 (CMS RELEASE 5 AND RELEASE 6) OR VM39036 (CMS VM/XA RELEASE 1.2.0 AND RELEASE 1.2.1) IS NOT APPLIED. SYMPTOM 11 --- MSAPRSOP657S MEDIA SIZE SENSOR ERROR DETECTED. PRINTER IS A D/T3812. RC080606 IS ALSO USUALLY ISSUED. ENSURE THAT THE MICRO CODE LEVEL OF THE D/T3812 IS AT LEAST 2.40. Symptom 12 --- 4028 hang condition. If D/T4028 has a hang condition, have the CE open a hardware incident with the L2 hardware group and request the "BOULDER PATCH". One of the symptoms is the JOB light is ON yet no output. Depressing START/STOP seems to get the printer going again. LOCAL FIX: PROBLEM SUMMARY: PROBLEM CONCLUSION: TEMPORARY FIX: COMMENTS: CLOSE INFO APAR. MODULES/MACROS: SRLS: RTN CODES: CIRCUMVENTION: MESSAGE TO SUBMITTER: