PM26701: WHEN VIEWING FREE SPACE ON DASD, NEGATIVE VALUES ARE SEEN

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When viewing VTOC information (DVT in batch, 3.5 in FM/ISPF),
  the summary information on free and utilized space contains
  negative numbers.
  

Local fix

• n/a
  

Problem summary

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  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of File Manager Display Vtoc           *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The summary information may present     *
  *                      negative or otherwise inaccurate        *
  *                      values when internal variables          *
  *                      overflow.                               *
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  * RECOMMENDATION: Apply the provided PTF.                      *
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  File Manager internal variables used to hold totals for the
  display vtoc requests were not of a large enough scale to avoid
  overflow. In order to represent all the information on a panel,
  the used display area for summary total figures is 10 digits.
  This may not be adequate in some cases.
  

Problem conclusion

• File Manager has been updated in order to:
  Increase the capacity of internal summary total variables and
  add a notation to the displayed form of the totals in case
  of figures exceeding the displayable area size.
  When used, the notation takes the form of a power of 2 modifier:
  K - for Kilobytes (kibibyte), meaning 2¬10
  M - for Megabytes (mebibyte), meaning 2¬20
  G - for Gigabytes (gibibyte), meaning 2¬30
  T - for Terabytes (tebibyte), meaning 2¬40
  P - for Petabytes (pebibyte), meaning 2¬50
  E - for Exabytes  (exbibyte), meaning 2¬60
  
  As many decimal places will be displayed as will fit in the
  display area.
  E.g.  the total figure 103568136431793 would be displayed in
  ten digits as
  94.194671T
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

  PM16784

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UK65330 UK65331 UK65363 UK65364 UK65365 UK65370 UK65371 UK65373

Modules/Macros

• FMNABXIT FMNAF    FMNAFTBL FMNALLM  FMNAMSIO
  FMNAPB   FMNASMBX FMNASMBY FMNASMX  FMNATXIT FMNAUD   FMNAUD
  
  ***This field was truncated.  To obtain the full apar record, please contact your local support center.***
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  FILE MANAGER Z/

• Fixed component ID

  5655W4700

Applicable component levels

• RB1A PSY UK65331

     UP11/03/12 P F103

• RB1C PSY UK65363

     UP11/03/12 P F103

• RB10 PSY UK65330

     UP11/03/12 P F103

• RB11 PSY UK65364

     UP11/03/12 P F103

• RB12 PSY UK65365

     UP11/03/12 P F103

• RB13 PSY UK65370

     UP11/03/12 P F103

• RB14 PSY UK65371

     UP11/03/12 P F103

• RB15 PSY UK65373

     UP11/03/12 P F103

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