I think I received the following link internally rather than from IBM-MAIN. It's a good discussion of the issue.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J O Skip Robinson Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert We have installed the R13 PTF and tested with assistance from IBM. To see your vulnerability, use IPCS ACTIVE or Omegamon MLST or Mainview (???) to display data currently in the UCCB control block at +10: 10?+220?+3C?+10 Before the PTF, you will see something like CFA83DBE 87F18D69 , which is a copy of the system clock at the last IPL. The problem is that on December 15, this data turns to D0000000 00000000 . With this clock value, the flag being checked for Unicode availability returns 'not available' via RC 8. After the PTF is IPLed (required!), the field is all zeroes, which is OK. The fix moves the time stamp to UCCB+20 and zeroes out UCCB+10. In order to verify functionally, SYS1.SAMPLIB contains member CUNSISMA, which calls Unicode. RC 0 indicates Unicode is available, RC 8 indicates it is not available. If you run CUNSISMA today, you'll get RC 0. But if you use your favorite memory altering tool--we used Omegamon MZAP--to set UCCB+10 to D0000000 00000000, the program will get RC 8. After the fix is IPLed, UCCB+10 is all zeroes, and CUNSISMA gets RC 0. We could go further and IPL the system to December 16, but that's a lot of trouble just to see if IBM is telling the truth. ;-) . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dno Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 10:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert Great! Thanks Al. I did not see the fix in the link. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 15, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> wrote: > > PTF UA79203 for z/OS 1.13 is available today, I just received it and when I > did an APPLY CHECK, it was the only one applied. > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > EI&O > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Dno > Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 1:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Unicode services Red alert > > I applied the APAR fix to be safe, but I see that IBM did not publish a PTF > for 1.13??? Any reason why? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Mike Shorkend <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The PTFs are out there >> >> see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 >> >> for version specific fixes >> >>> On 8 October 2015 at 18:27, גדי בן אבי <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I was told, by our IBM person, that the official PTF we be made >>> available on October 16th. >>> Gadi >>> >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Jake Anderson [[email protected]] >>> Sent: 08 October 2015 17:46 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Unicode services Red alert >>> >>> So far we have the APAR, Any idea when we will be getting the GA PTF >>> for this ? >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> What bugs me is that z/OS 1.13 systems are not exposed to this >>>>> defect yet IBM created an aparfix for 1.13. >>>> >>>> Any application, whether customer-owned, ISV-owned, or IBM-owned >>>> could be using this service (which has been in z/OS since z/OS >>>> 1.10). IBM has no idea what might fit into those first two >>>> categories. Thus I would think >>> it >>>> would be in everyone's best interest to get this PTF and apply it, >>>> if for no other reason than to avoid having to figure out if you truly >>>> care. >>>> >>>> The IBM use in LE apparently is new with z/OS 2.1. >>>> >>>> Peter Relson >>>> z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
