IT33781: MAINTENANCE JOB TAKING LONGER TO COMPLETE AFTER UPGRADE TO V10.1.6

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• After upgrading to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus version
  10.1.6,
  you may experience the maintenance job taking longer to
  
  complete. The duration of the job appears to be dependent
  on
  the resources available to the vSnap because the increase
  in
  time has been from roughly one hour to multiple hours.
  The
  vSnap resources is not the reason for the additional time
  to
  the maintenance job. Adding additional resources only
  masks
  the issue being reported.
  
  The maintenance job runs once
  a day to remove resources and
  associated objects that are
  created by IBM Spectrum Protect
  Plus when a job that is in a
  pending state is deleted.
  
  To see if you encountering this
  issue, review the maintenance
  joblog and check the Summary line
  found at the bottom of the
  log. Reviewing the previous version
  of Spectrum Protect Plus you
  will see something similar to the
  following:
  
  SUMMARY,...,CTGGA2340,Job policy Maintenance
  completed in
  5 min(s) 35 sec(s) and ended with status
  COMPLETED.
  
  After the upgrade to 10.1.6, you will notice a
  significant
  increase is time to complete:
  
  
  SUMMARY,...,CTGGA2340,Job policy Maintenance completed in
  1
  hr(s) 25 min(s) 58 sec(s) and ended with status PARTIAL.
  
  IBM
  Spectrum Protect Plus Versions Affected:
   10.1.6
  
  |MDVREGR
  10.1.6-1971|
  |MDVREGR 10.1.6-1974|
  
  Additional Keywords:
  
  TS003928372 SPP ISPP MAINTENANCE PERFORMANCE
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * IBM Spectrum Protect Plus level 10.1.6                       *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * See ERROR DESCRIPTION                                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * Apply fixing level when available. This problem is currently *
  * projected to be fixed in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus level     *
  * 10.1.6 iFix3 and 10.1.7. Note that this is subject to change *
  * at the discretion of IBM.                                    *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Reduce the number of calls to the vSnap storage. It may take 2-3
  runs of the maintenance job to return to a normal run time.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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

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

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SP PLUS

• Fixed component ID

  5737SPLUS

Applicable component levels