[gpfsug-discuss] Fw: Fwd: IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE - what do do with this announcement, all I get is an APAR number

[Mustafa Mah]

Heiner,

Here is an alert for this APAR IJ24518 which has more details.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6210439

Regards,
Mustafa

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> From: Billich Heinrich Rainer (ID SD) <heinrich.billich at id.ethz.ch>
> Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 4:29 AM
> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE - what
> do do with this announcement, all I get is an APAR number
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> Hello,
>
> I’m quite upset of the form and usefulness of some IBM announcements
> like this one:
>
> IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE
>
> How do I translate an APAR number to the spectrum scale or ess
> release which fix it? And which versions are affected? Need I to
> download all Readmes and grep for the APAR number? Or do I just
> don’t know where to get this information? How do you deal with such
> announcements? I’m tempted to just open a PMR and ask ☹.
>
> This probably relates to previous posts and RFE for a proper
> changelog. Excuse if it’s a duplicate or if I did miss the answer in
> a previous post. Still the quality of  this announcements is not
> what I expect.
>
> Just for completeness, maybe someone from IBM takes notice:
>
> All I get is an APAR number and the fact that it’s CRITICAL, so I
> can’t just ignore, but I don’t get
>
> Which ESS versions are affected – all previous or only since a
> certain version?
> What is the first ESS version fixed?
> When am I vulnerable– always, or only certain hardware or
> configurations or ….?
> What is the impact – crash due to temporary corruption or permanent
> data corruption, or metadata or filesystem structure or ..?
> How do I know if I’m already affected, what is the fingerprint?
> Does a workaround exist?
> If this is critical and about a possible data corruption, why isn’t
> it already indicated in the title/subject but hidden?
> why is the error description so cryptic and needs some guessing
> about the meaning? It’s no sentences, just quick notes. So there is
> no explicit statement at all.
>
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203365?
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>
> Kind regards,
>
> Heiner
>
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