IJ54107: PERMISSION ISSUE WHILE READING THE FILE FROM .AFM DIRECTORY

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• .afm directory where some failure files are redirected today has
  a default permission of 700 when created.. Only the user has
  full access to it.. But there are times when other group users
  and others might want to view failure list files. And the file
  permission being 700 as well, the read gets denied.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• .afm directory where some failure files are redirected today has
  a default permission of 700 when created.. Only the user has
  full access to it.. But there are times when other group users
  and others might want to view failure list files. And the file
  permission being 700 as well, the read gets denied.
  

Problem conclusion

• This problem is fixed in 5.1.9.9
  To see all Spectrum Scale APARs and their respective
  Fix solutions refer to page: 
  https://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/spectrumscale/spectrum_scale
  _apars.html
  
  Benefits of the solution:
  Allow .afm contents to have r+x permissions for Group and other
  users. Also make the failure list from upload/download to be r+x
  for all users.
  
  Work Around:
  None
  
  Problem trigger:
  Reading failure list in .afm directory of AFM filesets as
  non-root users.
  
  Symptom:
  Unexpected Behavior
  
  Platforms affected:
  All OS Environments
  
  Functional Area affected:
  AFM
  
  Customer Impact:
  High Importance
  

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

  SPEC SCALE STD

• Fixed component ID

  5737F33AP

Applicable component levels