[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.]
First it was HP, then it was Sun. Not to be outdone, IBM steps up and gives VDBs a headache.
APAR IZ00988 is “sysrouted” to APAR IZ01121 and APAR IZ01122.
Really IBM, the amount of information common to all three pages is overwhelming. Do you really need a new APAR number issued for component name or level? Can’t you just list them all in one APAR and save us time? More importantly, do we need three APAR entries that say “a security issue has been fixed” and make us dig up the information?