VM65291: SMAPI NOT HANDLING ENSEMBLE-MANAGED SERVER REMOVAL

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• On the Hardware Management Console (HMC), when attempting
  to use the Unified Resource Manager (URM, z/Manager) to choose
  z/VM virtual servers to manage, no virtual servers are
  displayed.  This occurs after a virtual server which had
  previously been ensemble managed is deleted from the system
  (ie, CP directory).  The problem is caused by SMAPI's handling
  of it's internal file ENSBMNGD NOTEBOOK.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of the z/VM System Management          *
  *                 Application Programming Interface (SMAPI)    *
  *                 including zEnterprise environments when      *
  *                 managed by the Unified Resource Manager.     *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
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       On the Hardware Management Console (HMC), when attempting
  to use the Unified Resource Manager (URM, z/Manager) to choose
  z/VM virtual servers to manage, no virtual servers are
  displayed.  This occurs after a virtual server which had
  previously been ensemble managed is deleted from the system
  (ie, CP directory).
       The problem is in DMSSSMEM EXEC, which handles the zManager
  request to indicate images that are being managed by zManager.
  The code does not handle the case in which an image (virtual
  machine) which is marked as being ensemble-managed is deleted
  from the CP directory.  DMSSSMEM's processing maintains the list
  of emsemble-managed images in file ENSBMNGD NOTEBOOK.  When
  processing this file, the code fails when processing the image
  that has been deleted from the CP directory.
  

Problem conclusion

• DMSSSMEM $EXEC has been updated.  The code no longer fails
  when a userid found in file ENSBMNGD NOTEBOOK does not exist in
  the CP directory.  Instead, the code logs an entry in the SMAPI
  LOG and then continues to process the other userids in ENSBMNGD
  NOTEBOOK.  Also, the code has been updated to correct several
  entries written to the SMAPI LOG.
  

Temporary fix

• FOR RELEASE ES-CMS-620-BASE :
  PREREQ: NONE
  CO-REQ: NONE
  IF-REQ: NONE
  

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UM33911

Modules/Macros

• DMSSSMEM
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  VM CMS

• Fixed component ID

  568411201

Applicable component levels

• R620 PSY UM33911

     UP13/02/12 P 1501

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