APAR: IY13946 COMPID: 576565500 REL: 420
ABSTRACT: DIAGNOSTICS INDICATES FAILURE TO DOWNLOAD SES DEVICE UCODE

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
The customer will see a failure when trying to download SES
upgrade microcde to a 2104-DU3 or 2104-TU3 drawer operating in
single bus mode.

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
Apply PTF associated with this defect and apply F016 or greater
level of 2104-DU3/2104-TU3 SES microcode.

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APAR: IY14032 COMPID: 576565500 REL: 420
ABSTRACT: DOWNLOAD MICROCODE TASK RETURNS MACHINE CHECK.

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Downloading Microcode to 2014 on H80 system does a machine
check

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
Set correct flags for ses ioctl call to download.

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APAR: IY14711 COMPID: 5765C3403 REL: 430
ABSTRACT: 7135: PROBLEM WITH SINGLE-CONTROLLER SYSTEMS ON 4.3.3

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
On systems with only one dac per dar, raidmgr will error exit
with no other output, and without performing any actions.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
***************************************************************
*USERS AFFECTED: *
* All users with the following filesets at these levels *
* devices.scsi.scarray.rte 4.3.3.10
***************************************************************
*PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: *
* On systems with only one dac per dar, raidmgr will
* error exit with no other output, and without
* performing any actions.
***************************************************************
*RECOMMENDATION: *
* Apply apar IY14711
***************************************************************

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
First check ODM for dacN,* and *,dacN, as in 293428, but then
also check for just dacN in case there is only a single dac.

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APAR: IY14859 COMPID: 5765C3403 REL: 430
ABSTRACT: SYSCRASH FROM STRIPED+MIRRORED IO ON MP

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
There is a timing window during striped+mirrored
io processing on MP machines where the hd_freebuf
list can be corrupted. If this happens the system
would crash, depending on how the timing works out,
in any of the disk device drivers or the iodone
kernel service.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
There is a timing window during striped+mirrored
io on MP machines where the hd_freebuf list can
be corrupted, causing the system to crash in
any of the disk or lvm device drivers or the
iodone kernel service.
In order to fix this the MP safe locking was
changed in the striped and mirrored iodone
routines of the lvm device driver.

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
There is a timing window during striped+mirrored
io on MP machines where the hd_freebuf list can
be corrupted, causing the system to crash in
any of the disk or lvm device drivers or the
iodone kernel service.
In order to fix this the MP safe locking was
changed in the striped and mirrored iodone
routines of the lvm device driver.

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APAR: IY15084 COMPID: 5765C3403 REL: 430
ABSTRACT: UNABLE TO CREATE THREADS IN 64-BIT MODE.

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Customer may be unable to create threads in 64-bit mode.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
***************************************************************
*USERS AFFECTED: *
* All users with the following filesets at these levels *
* bos.adt.prof 4.3.3.26
* bos.adt.prof 4.3.3.27
* bos.rte.libpthreads 4.3.3.26
***************************************************************
*PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: *
* Customer may be unable to create threads in 64-bit
* mode.
***************************************************************
*RECOMMENDATION: *
* Apply apar IY15084
***************************************************************

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
Change location of tstate structure by 2 bytes.

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APAR: IY15322 COMPID: 5765C3407 REL: 210
ABSTRACT: V2R1 PTF-11

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Added filesets for AIX V2R1 NSM PTF11

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APAR: IY15323 COMPID: 5765C3407 REL: 210
ABSTRACT: V2R1 PTF-11 DUMMY

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Added filesets for AIX V2R1 NSM PTF11

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APAR: IY15442 COMPID: 5765C3403 REL: 430
ABSTRACT: IPL_VARYON FAILURE IF ANY DISK IN ROOTVG GOES BAD

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
If any disk in rootvg goes bad then ipl_varyon will fail.
This will cause rc.boot to hang with an led of 0x555.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
***************************************************************
*USERS AFFECTED: *
* All users with the following filesets at these levels *
* bos.rte.lvm 4.3.3.25the mount will fail
* bos.rte.lvm 4.3.3.26ally varied on. The
***************************************************************
*PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: *
* If any disk in rootvg goes bad then ipl_varyon will
* fail. This will cause rc.boot to hang with an led of
* 0x555.
***************************************************************
*RECOMMENDATION: *
* Apply apar IY15442
***************************************************************

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
If any disk in rootvg goes bad then ipl_varyon
will fail but return SUCCESS in the return code.
Right after the ipl_varyon we try to mount the
root filesystem '/' but the mount will fail
because rootvg is not really varied on. The
failure of mount will cause rc.boot to hang
with an led of 0x555.

TEMPORARY FIX:
If rootvg is mirrored you can boot from the
maintenance cds and reduce the failing disk.
After that you should be able to boot normally.

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APAR: IY15575 COMPID: 5765C3403 REL: 430
ABSTRACT: MKSSYS/MKSERVER ERRORS WHEN CREATING 4.3.3 NIM SPOT ON 4.3.3

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Creation of an AIX 4.3.3 NIM spot on a system
running AIX 4.3.3 will fail with mkssys errors.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
***************************************************************
*USERS AFFECTED: *
* All users with the following filesets at these levels *
* bos.sysmgt.trace 4.3.3.26
* bos.rte.SRC 4.3.3.11
* bos.rte.SRC 4.3.3.12
***************************************************************
*PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: *
* Creation of an AIX 4.3.3 NIM spot on a system running
* AIX 4.3.3 will fail with mkssys errors.
***************************************************************
*RECOMMENDATION: *
* Apply apar IY15575
***************************************************************

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
This problem was introduced while trying to fix the
same problem creating AIX 4.3.2 NIM SPOTs on an AIX
4.3.3 NIM server. Both types of SPOT creation can
not be supported. Therefore, this fix returns the
code to its' original state so that 4.3.3 SPOTs
can be created on 4.3.3 systems. 4.3.2 SPOTs on
4.3.3 systems will contain the mkssys/mkserver errors.
Use the steps listed in the workaround to get around
this problem.

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APAR: IY15625 COMPID: 5765C3403 REL: 430
ABSTRACT: SIGNALS DO NOT WORK PROPERLY WITH AIXTHREAD_SCOPE=P

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Signals do not work in application
Example: Ctl-c does not work

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
In _set_vp (500 and above) and in _set_curvp (433)
there is a place where it checks for VP_SLEEP, if set then
set the application signal mask . Unfortunately there are
some instances that the VP_SLEEP flag is not being set.
The solution is to check for the VP_TERMINATE flag instead.
We know that when this code gets executed, the VP_TERMINATE
flag will either be set or not. If not, then that means the
vp is about to be put to sleep.

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APAR: IY15741 COMPID: 5765C3403 REL: 430
ABSTRACT: ADD 4330-07 ML TO FIXDATA

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Customers will not be able to determine that the 4330-07
Recommended Maintenance package is installed.

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
Add the 4330-06 maintenance package stanza to the fixdata.

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APAR: IY16043 COMPID: 569690600 REL: 230
ABSTRACT: INSECURE CALL OF EXTERNAL PROGRAM IN AIX CDMOUNT

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
mmausaix15.austin.ibm.com2530 VERS=PTMCVTFNX A potential
security problem exists with the use of the cdmount executable
by the UMS media_player and mpeg_player applications when they
mount Video CDs.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
A potential security problem exists with the use of the cdmount
executable by the UMS media_player and mpeg_player applications
when they mount Video CDs.

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
The verification of the parameters being passed into the
cdmount executable has been redesigned to prevent misuse of
the executable.

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APAR: IY16044 COMPID: 569690600 REL: 230
ABSTRACT: MEMORY LEAKS IN UMSAUDIOFILE METHODS

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
mmausaix15.austin.ibm.com2530 VERS=PTMCVTFNX When the
UMSAudioFile_open and UMSAudioFile_close functions were placed
in a continuous loop, a memory leak was discovered with both
.snd and .wav type sound files.

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
When the UMSAudioFile_open and UMSAudioFile_close functions
were placed in a continuous loop, a memory leak was discovered
with both .snd and .wav type sound files.

PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
Found source of leaks and added code to properly free allocated
memory.

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