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Product Fixes

Dr. D



Fixes for Each Release Sorted by Issue Date (Oldest to Newest):

Fix

Issue
Date

Symptom

DR68C001 12/07/06 Operation exception when attempting to use a non-Dr.D backup tape as input.
DR68C002 12/07/06 Erroneous DOCTOR078 INPUT BLKSIZE=nnn EXCEEDS DOCTOR BLKSIZE=nnn issued when accessing some pre-Dr.D 6.8 and non-Dr.D backup files.
DR68C003 12/14/06 DOCTOR154 SA/RE=LO SPECIFIED WITHOUT SV/RV OR SC/RC issued erroneously when DM=E is specified but the SVOL operand is missing. When DM=E is specified without the SVOL operand, the restore is to begin wherever the save file is currently positioned.
DR68C004 12/18/06 DOCTOR153 GETVIS UNABLE TO ALLOCATE (GETCUSH ) issued when using the GR= operand or after specifying a Getvis Reserve value in the default configuration.
DR68C005 12/26/06 Input file is not closed when running the DOCTOR58 utility. When the input is a VSAM/SAM file, this will result in the 4A87I AUTOMATIC CLOSE HAS BEEN STARTED message. When using a SAM file controlled by a disk manager, this will result in any DLBL close codes not being processed.
DR68C006 12/26/06 Addressability issues with non-Dr.D backup tape routines
DR68C007 12/26/06 Print lines display garbage where spaces should on VTOC listings.
DR68C008 01/23/07 Cancellation when attempting to process with a disk pool that has more than 32 volumes. Most common cancellations are fixed point divide and operation exception.
DR68C009 03/13/07 DOCTOR186 CANDIDATE OR SPECIFIED VOLUME- DOES NOT EXIST or error DOCTOR999 - 'DOCTOR51' PROGRAM LOGIC ERROR 0008 issued when attempting to do do a VSAM restore using RESTORE=LOGICAL with the RVOLID operand.
DR68C010 03/15/07 No error message issued if the PRODKEY is invalid or missing.
DR68C011 03/19/07 DOCTOR187 message is not always displayed when running a FUNCTION=VTOCMOVE
DR68C012 04/11/07 DOCTOR001 INVALID KEYWORD ON CTLCARD issued when using the DC= operand.
DR68C013 04/11/07 DOCTOR037 PROGRAM CHECK intermittenly issued when running a standalone restore.
DR68C014 05/01/07 DATE=+n override does not work with a VSAM RESTORE=LOGICAL.
DR68C015 06/04/07 Errors with FUNCTION=CTAPE when creating image copies. Problem is multiple tapemarks following header on TAPETWO and the HDR2 information for TAPE003 is incorrect.
DR68C016 07/18/07 Errors reading unlabeled tapes and vtapes. Problem symptoms include 0P19I UNDET ERR, 0P36I NO REC FND, and 0P73I I/O ERROR.
DR68C017 08/24/07 DOCTOR141 message erroneously issued when supplying only RCAT or RVOL operand during a restore.
DR68C018 11/02/07 Cancellation when supplying a large number of selector statements to non-VSAM FUNCTION operations.
DR68C019 11/26/07 Errors when processing a multi-extent input file using SAVE/COPY=DATA/SDISK.
DR68C020 11/27/07 DOCTOR152 VSAM FILE IS VARIABLE BUT VA=YES NOT SPECIFIED issued even though the default configuration option VARIABLE was changed to YES. Note: After applying this ptf, it is required that Dr.D be reconfigured using DRZAP and the YES response must be re-entered for the VARIABLE option.
DR68C021 11/28/07 Errors caused by storage overlays when using multiple SAVE/RESTORE=LOGICAL or FUNCTION control statements in a a single execution. Also fixes several errors associated with using disk pools during SAVE, RESTORE, and FUNCTION control statement processing. Problem symptoms vary from loops to abends.
DR68C022 12/03/07 Protection exception when issuing MSG to partition to interrupt DRD processing.
DR68C023 12/04/07 Intermittent segment translation exception at the end of a function.
DR68C024 03/05/08 Automatic definition during a VSAM restore of a password protected object fails to pass the ATTEMPTS() parameter to IDCAMS if ATTEMPTS(0) was originally specified. This results in reverting to ATTEMPTS(2) which is the default.
DR68C025 03/18/08 SD files do not truncate during a restore operation even with DM=E coded.
DR68C026 03/18/08 Fileid intermittently not displayed or not displayed correctly on save and restore reports.
DR68C027 05/19/08 System waits for a reply following the issuance of DOCTOR617 UNRECOVERABLE ERROR HAS OCCURRED ON OUTPUT TAPE ... This fix will force a cancellation following detection of an unrecoverable error. Additionally, this fix will correct an error in the issuance of the DOCTOR617 message where the name of the object being saved is not displayed correctly.
DR68C028 05/19/08 Save and restore reports show wrong volser or no volser for reels 2+ when using multi-volume.
DR68C029 01/21/09 DOCTOR317 WARNING- UNMATCHED SELECTOR(S) ENTERED intermittently issued when attempting to process some files. This problem usually associated with system files such as the DOS paging file.
DR68C030 01/23/09 Fix a problem with the auto-assign feature. Common problems symptoms are issuance of 4376D VOLUME SERIAL NOT.... and 4883I INVALID LOGICAL UNIT.... messages.
DR68C031 03/02/09 Intermittent cancellation - usually an operation exception when switching tape volumes.
DR68C032 03/02/09 DOCTOR004 SYSIPT IS ASSIGNED IGN, UA, OR NON-DASD when using SYSnnn defaults with an operation and no SVOLID or RVOLID is specified.
DR68C033 04/07/09 DOCTOR014 CONTINUATION NOT RECEIVED when using continuations within operands.
DR68C034 05/14/09 DOCTOR316 NO FILES SELECTED issued when using the selector =t= if the selector dsn has blanks
DR68C035 05/14/09 BIM-EPIC catalog is not updated properly when running an AREA=COMPACT on a pack with a large number of files. This fix also requires one of the following BIM-EPIC ptfs: For BIM-EPIC 7.1C, EP71C066 is required BIM-EPIC 7.2B, EP72B020 is required
DR68C036 06/17/09 DOCTOR902 DECRYPTION FAILURE RC=-3100 issued when attempting to use AES encryption.
DR68C037 08/25/09 Save/restore reports occassionally show tape volsers as being creeated as TAPETWO or TAPE003 erroneously.
DR68C038 08/25/09 TAPETWO and TAPE003 dtfname overrides occassionally fail when specified by the TD= operand. Problem occurs when using the UPSI= operand on the same control statement.
DR68C039 03/25/10 Specification exception or other abend when running DOCTOR58. Problem caused by buffer overflow.
DR68C040 04/13/10 Intermittent DOCTOR316 NO FILES SELECTED when using a PARTIAL=SELECT.
DR68C041 09/22/10 Abend when attempting to restore selected files to a pool with more than 32 volumes. Also fixed abend when attempting to save files in a disk pool by GENERATION (first, last, or specific) when there are more than 3500 generation files in the pool.
DR68C042 10/14/10 Intermittent premature EOF when saving KSDS with FAST=YES,INSEQUENCE=YES when there is an error in the sequence set.
DR68C043 10/21/10 Backout PTF DR68C042. With DR68C042 applied, out of sequence key errors are not properly detected during save functions.
DR68C044 11/03/10 4883I Invalid Logical Unit when attempting to process non-VSAM files using DATA or SDISK save/restore functions. Occurs if the EXTENT specifies a disk pool name or a non-existant disk volser. Problem occurs after application of DR68C030.
DR68C045 12/14/10 DOCTOR995 STANDALONE RESTORE ERROR TRAP - MSGCD=078 issued when attempting to restore standalone tape if block size of tape is greater than 65496.
DR68C046 01/10/11 DOCTOR150 UNABLE TO OPEN VSAM FILE. VSAM ERR CODE=048 issued when trying to save a model with fast=no
DR68C047 01/10/12 Intermittent operation exception when attempting to restore from a save file created on disk.
DR68C048 02/09/12 Intermittent loop when saving VSAM files with the VUSE=SAVE operand. Problem caused by encountering a record whose RBA is located in a CA that did not exist when Dr.D began saving the file. When this situation occurs, the DOCTOR151 error message will now be issued after this fix is applied.
DR68C049 07/13/12 When using FAST=NO with VUSE=OPER, the read from console appears before the DOCTOR175 DATASET IN USE message.
DR70B001 06/21/11 Tape compression (CP=YES) not functioning. All save files are being created uncompressed.
DR70B002 07/21/11 Various errors when restoring save files compressed with CP=YES. Most common errors are associated with the following messages: DOCTOR001 INVALID KEYWORD ON CTLCARD DOCTOR316 NO FILES SELECTED FOR BACKUP/RESTORE DOCTOR999 PROGRAM LOGIC ERROR Errors during restore are caused by an error saving the contents block during a SAVE=LOGICAL.
DR70B003 08/04/11 VSAM open error 110 (x'64') after restoring a null file.
DR70B004 08/05/11 Intermittent cancellation when using a blocksize override (BL=) on a function control statement other than a nop control statement (i.e. SAVE=NO, RESTORE=NO).
DR70B005 08/05/11 Operation exception when attempting to create a data tape from a VSAM file.
DR70B006 08/29/11 0P11I DATA CHECK at eov on input
DR70B007 08/29/11 Operation exception when attempting to run FUNCTION=CTAPE
DR70B008 08/29/11 Default tape rewind codes not honored for TAPETWO and TAPE003. May result in cancellation after a 4120I TAPE POSITIONED WRONG message when openning TAPETWO or TAPE003 as a multi-file volume.
DR70B009 09/02/11 DOCTOR151 UNRECOVERABLE ERROR ON VSAM FILE. VSAM CODE=008 when trying to restore a compressed cluster that did not have any records in it when it was saved.
DR70B010 09/20/11 Loop when tracing i/o with TRACE=YES.
DR70B011 09/30/11 Intermittent loop when creating a backup on tape when CP=YES is in effect
DR70B012 10/17/11 DOCTOR152 VSAM FILE IS VARIABLE issued when saving a fixed length compressed VSAM file using SAVE=VSAM.
DR70B013 11/01/11 PROTECTION EXCEPTION RESTORING NON-CIFORMAT VSAM FILES
DR70B014 11/21/11 TAPE=REW does not cause a tape rewind when used on a NOP statement between functions. May also result in an 0P71I SYSnnn Not Assigned error.
DR70B015 11/23/11 The VSAM Automatic Definition Feature does not honor the RVOLID override during a restore.
DR70B016 12/05/11 Required PTF to resolved issues with the FUNCTION=BUILDAIX on ESA 5.1
DR70B017 01/05/12 Segment Translation Exception when using multi-volume input during a restore if the input file was created by another backup product.
DR70B018 01/09/12 Intermittent operation exception when attempting to restore from a save file created on disk.
DR70B019 02/09/12 Intermittent loop when saving VSAM files with the VUSE=SAVE operand. Problem caused by encountering a record whose RBA is located in a CA that did not exist when Dr.D began saving the file. When this situation occurs, the DOCTOR151 error message will now be issued after this fix is applied.
DR70B020 03/21/12 Enhancement for restores made using Faver2 input (TAPE=F6). Restoring of VSAM compressed files from a Faver2 backup is now supported.
DR70B021 05/01/12 Bypass closing output file and exit with return code=16 if step cancels but RP=YES is set.
DR70B022 05/21/12 DOCTOR151 UNRECOVERABLE ERROR ON VSAM FILE. VSAM CODE=008 RETURN CODE FROM PUT=008 issued when attempting to restore a compressed, spanned cluster. The restore error is caused by an error during the save.
DR70B023 05/30/12 Standalone restore goes into loop after issuing DOCTOR066 message. Also fixes intermittent specification exception abend at close when creating the standalone tape.
DR70B024 06/13/12 Enhancement to add a save file summary report to the end of save functions. This report is generated when using the SR=YES operand on the SAVE= control statement. This report will be generated on a new page following the standard save report. It will display start and end date and time, the number of files saved, the dataset name(s) of the save file(s) created, the volser(s), and the excp count for each save file.
DR70B025 06/21/12 Save summary report intermittently generated before last detail line of the save report is written.
DR70B026 06/21/12 DOCTOR130 DEVICE nnnn SUBCHANNEL NUMBER NOT KNOWN issued when attempting to restore multiple packs during standalone restore
DR70B027 07/13/12 When using FAST=NO with VUSE=OPER, the read from console appears before the DOCTOR175 DATASET IN USE message.
DR70B028 08/17/12 Display the unmatched selectors on syslst is conjunction with the DOCTOR317 WARNING UNMATCHED SELECTORS message.
DR70B029 08/29/12 Lower and mixed case selection criteria is being translated to upper case.
DR70B030 08/31/12 Intermittent sdump generated when creating the space map report from a FUNCTION=LCAT.
DR70B031 09/04/12 Set RC=2 when saving null or open VSAM files.
DR70B032 10/12/12 Protection exception when attempting to restore DB2 files.
DR70B033 11/01/12 Enhancement for FUNCTION=LCAT adding FORMAT=B. With FORMAT=B, maximum file information is listed with the exception the extent information for unused candidate volumes (those showing NO ALLOCATION) will be suppressed.
DR70B034 05/17/13 DOCTOR151 UNRECOVERABLE ERROR ON VSAM FILE. VSAM CODE=008 when trying to restore a compressed cluster. Problem actually occurred on the save side when using multiple SAVE=LOGICAL operations in the same DRD execution.
DR70B035 08/23/13 0P13I C END OF VOL followed by 0P73I I/O ERROR error messages when using multi-volume with FUNCTION=CTAPE.
DR70B036 02/06/14 DOCTOR901 INTERNAL ERROR RC=05 issued intermittently during save functions with Dr. Crypto.
DR70B037 02/24/14 DOCTOR006 NO DLBL/EXTENTS error when attempting a RESTORE=PUTLABEL function with a file that has more than 16 extents.
DR70B038 02/24/14 0P19I UNDET ERR when using tape functions with DRDITTO.
DR70B039 04/02/14 Performance enhancement for Dr. Crypto.
DR70B040 04/02/14 Operation exception in DOCTOR08.PHASE when restoring multi-extent VSAM files that were saved by CI instead of by records.
DR70B041 04/03/14 DOCTOR999 'DOCTOR51' PROGRAM LOGIC ERROR 0007 issued when attempting to restore to a catalog that has more than 128 volumes.
DR70B042 04/03/14 Intermittent operation exception during a restore when the save file is on disk. Caused by an invalid segment count that could result in storage overlay.
DR70B043 04/03/14 Intermittent sdumps taken when doing a FUNCTION=LCAT. Also corrects an error in track calculations in the Space Map when working with FAT-DASD and BIG-DASD.
DR70B044 04/03/14 Enhancement to debugging facilities.
DR70B045 04/03/14 1R30I INVALID CCW issued after applying PTF DR70B043.
DR70B046 06/09/14 Enhancement to FUNCTION=BUILDAIX to support the BIM-BLDINDEX SPARSELIM option. Refer to TECHNOTE.Z for details on how to use this enhancement.
DR70B047 09/17/14 Following application of PTF DR70B031, a return code=0002 is set as the default return code for warning messages. This PTF adds a configuration option to allow the user to issue either an RC=2 or RC=0 for warnings. This new configuration option is: ISSUE RC=2 FOR WARNINGS: The default is YES to issue RC=2 for warnings. If this option is changed to NO, RC=0 will be issued for warnings (same as prior to DR70B031). Refer to the DRZAP Configuration Utility section of the Dr.D User Guide for additional information on setting/changing the default configuration.
DR70B048 09/26/14 DOCTOR151 UNRECOVERABLE ERROR ON VSAM FILE. VSAM CODE=008 RETURN CODE FROM PUT=008 when copying a compressed cluster. Usually associated with doing the copy when the input is already open.
DR70B049 05/19/15 DOCTOR901 INTERNAL ERROR RC=05 issued when attempting to access encrypted tapes saved with SAVE=ALL, SAVE=CURRENT, or SAVE=PHYSICAL. Also fixes DOCTOR TAPE FORMAT ERROR when accepting an encrypted tape or scratch tape in response to the EPIC EP009 INCORRECT DATASET/VERSION message.
DR70B050 05/19/15 Intermittent premature eof when using FAST=YES to save VSAM files.
DR70B051 06/05/15 Backout PTF DR70B050 as issued in error.
DR70B052 06/05/15 Abend when restoring an uncompressed VSAM cluster as a compressed cluster with VCOMPRESS=YES operand.
DR70B053 07/02/15 Fixed point divide exception running FUNCTION=LCAT against VSAM catalog residing on large capacity FBA devices.
DR70B054 08/19/15 DOCTOR999 'DOCTOR5B' PROGRAM LOGIC ERROR 0008 Usually associated with saving VSAM catalogs that have over 128 volumes.
DR70B055 08/19/15 Automatically bypass EPIC space holder ( ')' files) during a volume SAVE=LOGICAL.
DR70B056 11/03/15 Invalid data passed to userexit. Caused by passing wrong buffer address to exit.
DR70B057 08/16/16 DOCTOR151 Unrecoverable Error On VSAM File VSAM Code=008 issued when attempting to restore file that was originally compressed when it was saved using SAVE=VSAM,FAST=YES
DR711001 09/28/20 Create new PTF file for BIM-Dr.D 7.11
DR711002 10/15/20 Correction to the DOCTOR317 message which reports all unmatched selectors. This is only related to sublib and member type selectors, and when using the special generic slash (/) character.
DR711003 01/27/21 Correct various problems with 3390 model 54. Also corrects eoj statistics and disk to disk compares.

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