IT46166: A SUCCESSFUL TIER JOB MAY SKIP TO TIER GROUPED OBJECTS IF THEY B

8.1.24.000-IBM-SPSRV-WindowsX64-262
8.1.24.000-IBM-SPSRV-Linuxx86_64-262
8.1.24.000-IBM-SPSRV-Linuxs390x-262
8.1.24.000-IBM-SPSRV-Linuxppc64le-262
8.1.24.000-IBM-SPSRV-AIX-262

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• A successful tier job may skip to tier grouped objects if they
  belong to retention sets even though all the objects include
  retention sets were copied successful.
  
  Support/Customer diagnostics:
  
  
  1: A tier job was defined to tier everything from cont1 pool to
  pool2.  After a successful copy job, the subsequent tier job can
  complete successful, but data remains in source pool: cont1:
  
  
  
  
  ANR3838I Tiering process XXX for storage rule Tier_job  is
  completed. Data was tiered from storage pool cont1  to  storage
  pool pool2.
  Tiered Files: 0, Tiered Bytes: 0 bytes, Skipped Files:0, Skipped
  Bytes: 0, Total Bytes Transferred: 0 bytes, Elapsed time: 0
  Days, 0 Hours, 4 Minutes. (SESSION: YYY, PROCESS:
  XXX, JOB: ZZZ)
  
  ANR0985I Process XXX  for TIER STORAGE POOL (SUMMARY) running in
  the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at
  HH:MM:SS  (SESSION: YYY, PROCESS:
  XXX, JOB: ZZZ)
  
  
  2: the data remains in the pool after the tier completes:
  
  
  Q occ stgpool=cont1
  
  
  
  Node Name Type Filespace FSID Storage Number of Physical
  Logical
  Name Pool Name Files Space Space
  Occupied Occupied
  (MB) (MB)
  ---------- ---- ---------- --------- ---------- -----------
  ----------- -----------
  NODE1  Bkup \VMFULL-xxxx\- 114 cont01 306 - 16,119.97
  
  
  
  3: an example of the object remains in cont1 shows the data are
  grouped objects belong to retention set , for example:
  
  
  Show invo 1173494820
  inventory object 1173494820 of copy type Backup has attributes:
   Node(62): NODE1, Filespace(114): \VMFULL-XXXX
   ObjName: \xxxxx\SNAPSHOT_000001000_20220614024643\Hard Disk
  1\JOB000001001\MBLK00000002.CTL.
   hlID: 97DDF13DE036F0B1364CD56E1684C7C468E94A4D
   llID: 032E61EB3F3D68400CAEC5B9F2997D0761B66889
   Type: 2 (File)  MC: 15 (STANDARD) CG: 1  Size: 74240
  HeaderSize: 273
   Active, Inserted 06/14/22 02:46:11 (UTC 06/14/22 06:46:11)
   GroupMap 0x00000002, bypassRecogToken NULL, flags 0000
   Peer Group Member, GroupId: 1657690784
   Peer Group Member, GroupId: 1657487570
   Peer Group Member, GroupId: 1657037792
  
  
  Retention Information:
   Retention info for group leader 1657690439:
   NONE.
   Retention info for group leader 1657486752:
   NONE.
   Retention info for group leader 1657037273:
   NONE.
   Retention info for group leader 1656487390:
   Retention Set ID: 2056, Retention Rule: WEEKLY (3), Active
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All IBM Storage Protect server users.                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * See error description.                                       *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * Apply fixing level when available.This problem is currently  *
  * projected to be fixed in level 8.1.24.Note that this is      *
  * subject to change at the discretion of IBM.                  *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• This problem was fixed.
  Platforms fixed:  AIX, Linux, and Windows.
  

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

  TSM SERVER

• Fixed component ID

  5698ISMSV

Applicable component levels