Disk Library for mainframe

This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Datacenter Infrastructure products. We carefully evaluate and monitor code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.

Dell has a Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) program for many of our hardware systems. The CRU program allows customers to replace designated hardware components. For a list of the hardware components that are designated as CRU for a specific hardware system, go to the Dell Warranty and Maintenance Page.

Explore the Dell End of Service Life (EOSL) and End of Life (EOL) list for converged infrastructure, storage, and storage networking products. Access End-of-Life documents for hardware, software, and firmware release and service dates

NetWorker Snapshot Management (NSM) backups may fail with Error relinking snapvx snapshot to target: Unable to perform action Link on SnapVX snapshot, error SYMAPI_C_ACCESS_DENIED.

At DLm code 5.5.0.5 and 7.0.0.0 a change was made to the /opt/connectemc/ConnectEMC_config.xml file, changing the EmailAddress from emailalert@emc.com to emailalert@dlm.emc.com. This is currently not a valid e-mail for sending to CLM.

This KB article outlines how to zone WAN-COM ports on a single engine VPlex Metro.

AppSync cannot re-link to a mounted target device.

Certificate failure when starting DLMDR with installed ENCRYPTED certificates.

This article explains the procedure to open a Service Request (SR) using the Dell support page. Get help fast for your Dell device. No more waiting on hold. No more tech headaches. Dell makes it simple to fix problems, schedule repairs, or get support—right from your device or our support website.

This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.

This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

The DLmV0198E alert signals a machine check on a CPU sensor, pointing to a fault in the Central Processing Unit (CPU) or Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC), and may affect memory.

When PowerPath for Windows version 6.1 is installed on Windows Server 2016, validation alerts indicate that many drivers have dates earlier than the OS, because the PowerPath release predates the OS.

This KB article is a list of technical documents and videos produced by Dell Technologies.

How to find the serial number, product ID, or Product Serial Number Tag (PSNT) that is required to open a service request or support case for Dell Storage and Data Protection hardware products.

This article provides links to several Dell Community pages.

All the masking view information is visible in SYMCLI. The customer is unable to see the masking view information for all local arrays. Within Unisphere, none of the array masking view details are visible.

Intermittent failures saving a file in a username expanded home directory when the computer account also connects to the share but cannot find the file.

Explains how to enable SNMP notifications in Unisphere for VMAX, configure the ViPR Storage Resource Manager (SRM) server IP and port, select alert severity, and activate the alert policy.

This article provides guidance on updating customer data on the Service Requests (SRs) or accounts. It outlines what changes can be made by customers and the account team, as well as steps for modifying information and setting up Service Request notifications.

DLm utilities are bundled for download and assigned as a 2.xx Version number. However, within each bundle the utilities are assigned version numbers different than the bundle number. The table contained within will show the module levels within each bundle release. NOTE: The 2.xx Utilities Level bundle includes the Utilities Library, the REXX Library, the SAMPLIBU Library, and the SAMPLIBC Library. Additional libraries; SAMPLIBA, REXXAUTC, REXXCMD (replacing the REXX library), have been added in later 2.x.x.

Unisphere for VMAX: Server-0 component fails to initialize and shuts down.

DLm users may require working with temporary volumes or for other reasons require deleting tapes from the DLm. This can be achieved with a special run of DLMSCR.

In DLm Version 5.1.2, the requirement to specify SUBSYSTEM= in the device TAB has been removed. Up to 32 control units, each with 16 tape devices, can now be defined without including a SUBSYSTEM value.

How to handle DLm517E during the scratching, unscratching, or erasing process.

Depending on the activity on the R740 VTE server at the time of reboot, the initial reboot can timeout after 30 minutes. If this should occur, the VTE automatically issues a forced reboot. This reboot can last from 10 minutes to 30minutes.

This article addresses the informational message DLm0601I with signal=13 (Broken pipe). While the message is harmless, there are rare cases where a flood of these messages may occur. This article is intended to reassure users that the messages themselves are not indicative of a fault and to clarify when further investigation might be appropriate.

Dell has a Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) program for many of our hardware systems.

Isilon/PowerScale node panics with the following stack: panic @ time 1636820409.559, thread 0xfffff80b615e8000: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Within the stack you see: kernel:lki_shrink_lazy_queue+0x439 kernel:lin_lock_deltaread_lock_loss_probe+0x120