What does the report look like if you do an APPLY CHECK?  Maybe there are other 
PTFs involved that I cannot see at this time.

Or you could open an SR to IBM and ask them.

Lizette


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Beesley, Paul
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 3:13 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: REPORT MISSINGFIX flaw
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here or is there a flaw in the REPORT
> MISSINGFIX process? In the following example, a PTF was available and received
> for a PE PTF but wasn’t included in the APPLY JCL.
> 
>                           HOLD     MISSING  HELD     ____RESOLVING SYSMOD_____
> FIX CATEGORY     FMID     CLASS    APAR     SYSMOD   NAME     STATUS  RECEIVED
> _______________  _______  _______  _______  _______  _______  ______  ________
> IBM.Coexistence.z/OS.V2R1
>                  HBB7780           AA37696  HBB7780  UA68522  HELD    YES
>                                    AA42901  HBB7780  UA70510  HELD    YES
> 
> HOLD     HELD              ____RESOLVING SYSMOD_____  HOLD
> FMID     SYSMOD   APAR     NAME     STATUS  RECEIVED  CLASS
> _______  _______  _______  _______  ______  ________  _______
> HBB7780  UA68522  AA42661  UA70290  GOOD    YES       PE
>          UA70510  AA43965  UA72595  GOOD    NO        PE
> 
> This is saying that UA68522 is required for toleration with 2.1, but that it
> is PE and the fixing PTF is UA70290, and is received so can be applied.
> Correct? (I’m not worried about the other PTF, UA70510)
> 
> And yet, here is the SMPE input generated by the job. It will correctly
> receive the missing UA72595 PTF (which I’m not bothered about anyway). It
> correctly comments out the PE PTFs UA68522 and UA70510 but doesn’t include the
> fixing PTFs UA70290 and UA72595. Surely this is wrong. The omission of UA70290
> caused us a problem at the weekend as the first attempt to IPL a z/OS 2.1
> system into the sysplex failed because it identified there was a system
> without UA68522 applied.
> 
>   RECEIVE ORDER(
>           CONTENT(ALL) /*
> 
>         CONTENT(PTFS(
>           UA72595
>                )    )
>           */
> SET BDY(MVST100 ).
>   APPLY  CHECK
>          SELECT(
>   /* IBM.Coexistence.z/OS.V2R1
>              /* UA68522 */
>                 UA69223
>              /* UA70510 */
>                 UA70874
> 
> Regards and thanks
> Paul
> 

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