Classification:
Prologue: From the desk of  Matt Anglin, ADSM Development
Epilogue:

First, the bad news: IC16493 was opened against the incorrect server level.  It
has been closed, and APAR IX65944 has been opened for this problem.

Now the good news: The fix for IX65944 has been placed on index.storsys.ibm.com
in adsm/temp as IX65944.tar.Z.
This contains a small readme and a replacement dsmserv executable.  Make sure
you download it in binary and uncompress it before you untar it.

I encourage everyone running PTF 12 to install this fix, since the problem may
show itself in a variety of fashions (most of which related to insufficient
memory).

Matt Anglin
ADSM Development




        owner-adsm-l @ VM.MARIST.EDU
        02-11-97 08:39 AM
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To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU@internet
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Subject: Re: Problems with ADSM Server PTF 12

Trevor,

Thanks a lot for posting your warning about 2.1.5.12 and the server
failing due to insufficient memory - it made us double check our small
"test" server and you are perfectly correct, with more than very modest
DB bufferpool and LOG pool sizes the server fails ANR0358E. We had
intended to upgrade our production server tomorrow but we won't now!

[The APAR in question is IC16493, I believe.]

In fact, this makes 2.1.5.12 unusable for sites such as us who cannot
run with the DB and LOG bufferpool sizes set so low - the system
performance is just not acceptable. We run with a DB bufferpool of
32MB and await 2.1.5.13 to have higher values which would enable us
to better utilise available memory on our RS6K.

I am disappointed that this particular type of problem has arisen again
there was a similar (in end result, if not ANR message) at 2.1.5.6
and 2.1.5.7 and 2.1.5.8, all of which were unusable here.

It would be very helpful to know whether this fault will be fixed at
2.1.5.12 or whether we have to now wait for 2.1.5.13 (or later)?

Thanks. Regards, Sheelagh


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