Re: Jobs running without a program stack

On Feb 6, 2008 3:57 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe they have long been superceeded. But were they superceeded by any
ptf's you have? I wonder, since the cume you mentioned is from mid 2006.

Yeah, he should upgrade to a current cume before opening a call with
IBM. That'll reset the current condition anyway since a current CUME
requires an IPL.

I don't know much about "GA3" type of stuff. I did some limited
researching and that seemed to point more towards FSP code and not
microcode on any particular partition.

Yep, it's the FSP Firmware. I've never dealth with a 595, but
everything i've read so far was usually "do this, but NOT if you're on
595, then do that". This machine seems to a lot of things differently.

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload2/02BP240_168_168.html

According to this Document, GA3 is somewhere aequivalent to SF_222.
Which is very, very old. You should upgrade to SF240. This is a
procedure that requires IBM, and can't be done by the customer itself
or a BP.

See this Document:

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/0/e58d7bbf0eac9a2786256ead005f54d8?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1%2C2&TableRow=3.1#3.

Microcode for i5/os seems to do something called "Respins". Like 540-F
would indicate the F respin of 540. I think there's a correlation between
either the RE*, or the MH* class of ptf's and respins.

Yep, but you only need respins if you want to install a new partition
on "current" hardware. There's no need to install a Respin-LIC
seperatily, you can just apply the PTF.