SOLVED - Info inside Re: major Prob with PTF apply on V5R2 -- MIDRANGE-L

We solved it.
It's not a problem with a special group of PTFs itself,
it's the sequence in which we loaded them in our
special situation.

Here is the explanation (confirmed from IBM)

If you have a brand new V5R2 system or have to reload
the LIC for some reason (no PTFs applied yet)
then DO NOT start with the newest CumPTF-package
C3077520 as you will run into the problem we had.
Instead you take an older CumPTF package to start
with (in our case C2260520 that came with the initial
order of the machine and the OS) and procede as
normal, that is, load and apply that paket and restart
without any additional group PTFs.
Then you need MF30511, MF30470 and MF30420
not included in the new CumPTF, load them and DO
NOT IPL yet. Then you may load other group PTF
WITHOUT restarting and after all this you load
C3077520 and let the system restart to apply all this.

HTH someone else, Philipp

Philipp Rusch schrieb:

> Hello all,
>
> Sorry, long post ...
>
> maybe some guru can help here, I am lost:
>
> installed V5R2 on a brand new 810
> had some minor glitches on the HSL link between the
> to boxes this machine has, so we called IBM
> They let us load the newest CUM-PTF C3077520,
> HIPER-group and DB Group PTFs and everything went
> fine until the HIPER (level 53, I think) was loaded and we
> left for the night for the system to ipl and apply the PTFs.
> Next morning we had an SRC B6000901 and no system.
> We had to manually do an IPL from the A-side, system
> comes up with several LIC-PTfs in status "Not applied"
> and IPL action "yes".
> IBM had us order MF30470 to solve the SRC on IPL
> I tried to load and apply that PTF and get a LINK/Loader
> failure, ending abnormally with code X'FFFF' and cause
> code "000....4000'.
> I cannot apply this one or the other ones, I cannot remove
> or delete them, I always get this error, so I am stuck now.
> Searched up and down in manuals and found something about
> the MFPTI-Index being corrupt or the marker PTFs have
> been damaged. OK.
> I decided to reload the LIC from original CD-ROM to get
> rid of the un-applied PTFs.
> This worked ok, re-applied the CUM-PTF, re-ipled,
> system is ok. Loaded that MF30470 to avoid that SRC
> on IPL after the HIPER-group, re-ipled, ok.
> Again the HIPER-group is loaded and system again
> does not come up on the B-side. Again errors on INSPTF.
> I did manual IPL from A, got to the work with PTFs screen
> and removed all PTFs from 572999 that are not applied.
> Now I cannot load/apply MF-PTFs anymore and cannot
> IPL from B-side, what the heck is going on here ?
>
> Any help / idea appreciated.
> BTW, a call with IBM is open, so let's see.
>
> Regards from Germany, Philipp Rusch
>
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