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This RFE is satisfied by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.6 which is Generally Available today 12th June 2020.
The following IBM technote https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1137664 has been published and describes how to avoid zFS I/O failures during planned IPLs, along with details on the new zFS High Availability support which is now available via APAR OA57508
In addition Liberty fix pack delivered with CICS TS 5.6 fixes the issue that the Liberty zFS log fails permanently if I/O errors occur on zFS, see https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/2476
This RFE is satisfied by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.6 which is announced today 7th April 2020 and which has a planned availability date of 12th June 2020.
For more information see the CICS TS V5.6 announcement letter
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS220-077/index.html&request_locale=en
The following IBM technote https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1137664 has been published and describes how to avoid zFS I/O failures during planned IPLs, along with details on the new zFS High Availability support which is now available via APAR OA57508
In addition Liberty fix pack delivered with CICS TS 5.6 fixes the issue that the Liberty zFS log fails permanently if I/O errors occur on zFS, see https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/2476
The following IBM technote https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1137664 has been published and describes how to avoid zFS I/O failures during planned IPLs, along with details on the new zFS High Availability support which is now available via APAR OA57508
In addition Liberty fix pack 18.0.0.3 delivered with CICS APAR PH05401 fixes the issue that the Liberty zFS log fails permanently if I/O errors occur on zFS, see https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/2476
This is a candidate for a future release.
We have assessed this requirement. We have no current plans for this to be implemented and so this requirement is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.
Has there been any more status updates to this RFE? We have had several other outages due to this issue.