Re: Go Save 21

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Of course APARs & PTFs are available to be searched on the web 
without any call to or assistance from IBM service\support.  So 
regarding a problem with an error message CPFA09E, it is possible to 
search that error message as a /symptom/ using the keyword:
   msgCPFA09E

  SE26015 & SE27677 with latter providing superseding PTF SI26582 
available on C7121530, and the former marked HIPer [High Impact 
Pervasive] with its PTF SI24822 available on C7016530.  Neither APAR 
mentions anything about the &1 substitution [replacement] text value 
not being set.  However there are at least two cumulative PTF 
packages, C7198530 and C7303530, which both are newer and the latter 
should already be installed by now; i.e. unlikely to be the same 
issue, at least by origin, since preventive PTFs would already be 
applied.

  FWiW that condition may also be known\searched as variations on:
     EBUSY ErrNo3029 Errno 3029

  Not very helpful since almost those in IBM supporting i seem to 
rarely establish good search keywords for APARs, but FWiW... 
Properly formed [having been a convention for well over two decades, 
still unlikely for that to happen consistently, not just for failure 
to establish any firm ILE conventions], the full symptom string for 
the quoted error should be:
  msgCPFA09E F/QSRSAVEM FM/QSRSAVEM FP/qsrUnmountFileSystems Stmt/39

  Since some APARs associated with that EBUSY for MOUNT & UNMOUNT 
[possibly of UDFS] reference VLIC logs, the LIC log should probably 
be viewed for unexpected error conditions from the prior IPL until 
the time of the allocation error; vlog identifiers which will not 
appear on the IPL up through the time where the locked object is not 
yet an issue.  For example, a vlog is noted in SE27677 as "2B00 
A450" [but seen only on v5r4].  However note that the convention for 
recording that VLog as a /symptom/ in an APAR is VL2B00A450; noted, 
so as to know how to search any Vlogs that are found, both by the 
convention and by the just-as-likely incorrectly recorded values.

Regards, Chuck

Chris Bipes wrote:
> Forgot to mention we are at V5R3 The system is in restricted
> state. We do not have the IBM Help Server installed. The object
> listed is well not listed.
>
> Guess I just need to get this to V5R4 soon as IBM will not help
> without SPEND-BIG-MONEY command for extended support.
>
> Chris Bipes wrote:
> > Has anyone ever encountered this error? Note the object name
> > is blank.
> > The system is in restricted state prior to taking option 21.
> > This has happened to us 2 saves in a row. It takes an IPL to
> > restricted state to clear the error.
> >
> > CPFA09E Diag 40 QSRSAVEM QSYS *STMT QSRSAVEM QSYS *STMT
> > From module . . . . . . . . : QSRSAVEM
> > From procedure . . . . . . : qsrUnmountFileSystems__Fv
> > Statement . . . . . . . . . : 39
> > To module . . . . . . . . . : QSRSAVEM
> > To procedure . . . . . . . : qsrUnmountFileSystems__Fv
> > Statement . . . . . . . . . : 39
> > Message . . . . : Object in use. Object is .
> > Cause . . . . . : An operation attempted to use object . This
> > object is currently in use. Recovery . . . : Allow time for the
> > current operation to complete and then retry. If no operation is
> > being performed, determine if the object is checked out. If it
> > is, use the Check In Object (CHKIN) command to check in the
> > object and then retry. To determine what is currently using the
> > object or if the object is checked out, you can use the Retrieve
> > Object References (QP0LROR) API, or examine the object's
> > properties using iSeries Navigator. Additionally, the Work with
> > Object Links (WRKLNK) or Display Object Links (DSPLNK) commands
> > can be used to determine if the object is checked out.