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MICROCODE VERSION 50-06-16-00/00

RELEASED 06/09/06

Newly supported features and functions for Version 50-06-16-00/00

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The change of contents for Version 50-06-16-00/00

1 SVP Memory Leak Problem
Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
Conditions of Occurrence
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Category
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Phenomenon 1: When using the export tool or the Storage Navigator, an
error message displayed asking to call the support center.
Phenomenon 2: The operation from Hi-Command failed.
Medium
This problem may occur when the memory of SVP is full.
Phenomenon 1: The switching operations between View and Modify on
the Storage Navigator exceeds 10,000 times without rebooting the SVP.
Phenomenon 2: The SVP connected to Hi-Command not rebooted for
more than a month.
SVP: All
SVP: 50-06-15/00
RMI
SVP

2 RCU Target Port WCHK1 when TC Initial Copy

Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
Conditions of Occurrence
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Fixed Product/Version
Category
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When performing the initial copy for a True Copy pair, WCHK1 occurred
at the RCU target port.
High
A nonexistent LDEV paired as the R-VOL of the True Copy pair.
DKCMAIN: 50-06-10-00/00 and higher
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
True Copy
DKCMAIN

3 SVP Memory Leak due to SVP HDD Failure

Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
Conditions of Occurrence
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Fixed Product/Version
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When the file access performance degraded due to SVP HDD failures etc,
a memory leak occurred in DLL for storing the option monitor data so that
the SVP (RISMAN.exe) memory use increased significantly.
Low
The problem occurs with all conditions met.
1. Option monitor switch set to ON,
2. The file access performance is degraded due to SVP HDD failures etc.
SVP: All
SVP: 50-06-15/00
Performance Monitor
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4 Two Port FCA Blocked due to a HDD Failure
Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
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5 TCA SIM/SSB (F/M=0xFB) is not reported
Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
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6 Performance degradation in True Copy
Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
Conditions of Occurrence
Causes and Updates
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Fixed Product/Version
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7 Veritas SFOR Test Failure
Phenomena
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Both two-port FCA blocked due to a HDD Failure.
Medium
This problem occurs when a failure occurs during HDD data transfer.
DKCMAIN: All
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
HDD
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In TCA and TCA, the following phenomena may occur temporarily.
1. When the TCA pair is suspended due to a failure, SIM/SSB
(F/M=0xFB) is not output to the SVP.
2. When the TCA pair is suspended due to a failure, SIM/SSB
(F/M=0xFB) is not output to the SVP and not reported to the host.
3. In TCA, SIM indicating the pair status transition not reported to the host
4. In TCA and TCA, History not logged.
Medium
This problem occurs with all conditions met.
1. TCA and TCA
2. Pair operation or failure suspend
DKCMAIN: 50-06-04-00/00 and higher
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
True Copy/ True Copy for z/OS
DKCMAIN
At the site where RAID500 True Copy Sync OPEN P-VOL exists, Write
Pending may increase improperly, and performance degraded due to cache
overload.
Medium
With all the conditions A-C met, this problem may occur.
A. True Copy Sync OPEN volume
B. MCU is RAID500 50-04-06-00/00 and later
C. Configuration in which the LU receives host I/Os with alternate paths
from multiple ports
When an I/O operation is completed, the Cache slot management
information (R-VOL Pending) not removed.
Since the R-VOL Pending state remained in the slot, the slot not de-staged
to the disk. As a result, Write Pending accumulated, and cache overload
occurred.
The micro-program modified to fix the problem.
DKCMAIN: 50-04-06-00/00 and higher
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
True Copy
DKCMAIN
When running test program Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC, an error
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Severity (High, Medium, Low)
Conditions of Occurrence
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8 When SM for Shadow Image is not installed, WCHK1 occurs
Phenomena
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9 Invalid Verify Operation
Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
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message occurred.
Medium
The problem occurs when in the VCS (Veritas Cluster Server)
configuration, the I/O fencing option is set to ON (Type=5 PGR is issued).
The problem might occur when issuing a write I/O after a read I/O.
DKCMAIN: All
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
OPEN
DKCMAIN
with 24/3E (18-11/12/13) command
A 27/3E (18-11/12-13) command does not run normally, and one of the
following phenomena occurs. When the phenomenon 1 occurs, MPs in 4
CHA blocked one after another, and a system down may occur in the end.
1. The host connected MP is blocked (FICON package only)
2. Illegal Length occurs
3. The status reported to the host is not correct
Medium
This problem may occur with all conditions met.
1. Shared memory for Shadow Image not installed.
2. 27/3E (Suborder=18-11/12/13) is issued.
DKCMAIN: All
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
Shadow Image for z/OS
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When performing Verify without specifying parity group #0 in the 16K
LDEV configuration, the Verify operation started on parity group #0.
Low
This problem occurs with all the conditions met.
1. 64K LDEV support version (50-06-04-00/00 and higher)
2. 16K LDEV configuration
3. Parity group 1-1 is installed and in normal status.
DKCMAIN: 50-06-04-00/00 and higher
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
LDEV
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Alternate paths cannot be changed
1. Switching External Initiator to Target fails
2. External volumes are blocked when a micro program exchange or CHT
replacement
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Phenomena
Severity (High, Medium, Low)
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3. Usage of external LU path does not reach the expected value
Medium
Phenomenon 1 occurs with conditions (1) and (2).
(1) Select multiple external volumes and then delete all the paths
connected to these external volumes,
(2) Change the attribute of the ports connected to the paths in (1) from
External Initiator to Target.
Phenomenon 2 occurs with conditions (1) and (2) or (1) and (3).
(1) Select multiple external volumes, delete all the paths connected to
these external volumes, and then define one path to the external volumes.
(2) Replace the CHT to which the only path is set. Though there is no
alternate path and this path is the last one to the external volumes, no
message reported about the blockade.
(3) Perform an online micro program exchange. Though there is no
alternate path and this path is the last one to the external volumes, no
message reported about the blockade.
Phenomenon 3 occurs with the following condition met.
Select multiple external volumes and add paths to these external volumes
(however, the added path is not used).
Alternatively, change the priority of paths to change configuration of paths
connected to external volumes (however, priority is not changed).
DKCMAIN: All
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
Universal Volume Manager
DKCMAIN
SIZ Command Rejected when TCZ R-VOL = SIZ S-VOL
1. In case of the TCZ/SIZ cascading connection, when issuing the PPRC
DELPAIR command on the volume, shared, by the SIZ source volume and
TCZ R-VOL to delete the SIZ pair, the command rejected.
2. In case of the TCZA/SIZ cascading connection, when issuing a remote
SIZ command on the TCZA M-VOL to perform an SIZ operation for the
TCZA R-VOL, the command rejected.
Low
This problem occurs with all the conditions met.
1. TCZ R-VOL is also SIZ source volume.
2. For the shared VOL, SIZ delete is performed with a PPRC DELPAIR
command, or SIZ pair operation is performed with a remote SIZ command
(create, split, delete). (In the case of remote SIZ command, the problem
occurs only when DKC emulation type is other than 2105)
DKCMAIN: 50-06-04-00/00 and higher
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
True Copy for z/OS/ True Copy for z/OS Async
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SSB=df22 occurs when Shared Memory replacement
When the shared memory was replaced during an I/O operation while a TC
Async/Sync pair existed, SSB=DF22 occurred.
Low
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This problem occurs with all the conditions met.
1. CHT/CHN/CHI PCB
2. Cache replacement or shared memory replacement
DKCMAIN: 50-06-00-00/00 and higher
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
OPEN
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LPAR Hang up after Changing Volume Security Setting
When adding a host group and then changing the Volume Security setting,
an LPAR unrelated to the security group hung.
High
This problem occurs when performing Volume Security operations
(adding/deleting host groups/LDEV groups).
DKCMAIN: All
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
Volume Security
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CU# of External Volumes to be mapped were not Displayed
Mapping external volumes, CU# of external volumes did not display.
Low
This problem occurs with all the conditions met.
1. Define & Configuration performed on SVP with VER 50-02-xx & lower
2. The current SVP version is 50-06-05/00 or higher,
3. The Virtual Partition Manager setting not performed on the Partition
Definition panel of Storage Navigator,
4. Mapping the external LU on the Universal Volume Manager panel
SVP: 50-06-05/00 and higher
SVP: 50-06-15/00
Virtual Partition Manager
SVP
WCHK1 when Online Micro-Program Version Down
When performing an online micro program exchange from version 50-60-
xx or higher to version 50-05-xx or lower while the Performance Monitor
switch was ON, WCHK1 occurred.
High
This problem occurs with all the conditions met.
1. Performing an online micro-program exchange from version 50-60-xx
or higher to version 50-05-xx or lower,
2. Performance Monitor switch is ON.
DKCMAIN: 50-06-04-00/00 and higher
DKCMAIN: 50-06-16-00/00
Performance Monitor
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