FIle Corruption Issues running opatch on z/OS (Doc ID 751606.1)

Symptoms

attempting to apply a patch with opatch, after a HFS-ZFS conversion was done the following error is received:

make: ins_rdbms.mk: line 1: Error -- FSUM9392 file is binary

Other errors may be found in the apply log:

XML-20108 for each invocation of java i.e.:

System Command: /app/oracle/product/v10105b/jdk/bin/java -Dopatch.local_node_only -Doracle.installer.invPtrLoc=/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc -classpath "/app/oracle/product/v10105b/oui/jlib/OraInstaller.jar:/app/oracle/product/v10105b/oui/jlib/srvm.jar:/app/oracle/product/v10105b/OPatch/jlib/opatch.jar:/app/oracle/product/v10105b/oui/jlib/xmlparserv2.jar:/app/oracle/product/v10105b/oui/jlib/share.jar" opatch/VerifyPatch "/app/oracle/product/v10105b" "/app/oracle/product/v10105b/oui" /app/oracle/product/v10105b/patches/6278898 6278898 /bin/ar 0 30

Result:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: <Line 1, Column 1>: XML-20108: (Fatal Error) Start of root element expected.
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrorHandler(XMLError.java:441)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors1(XMLError.java:303)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:319)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:281)
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:195)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiOracleHomeInfoXMLReader.updateHomeProperties(OiiiOracleHomeInfoXMLReader.java:81)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallInventory.updateOracleHomesProperties(OiiiInstallInventory.java:507)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallInventory.readHomes(OiiiInstallInventory.java:459)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallAreaControl.loadPartialInstallInv(OiiiInstallAreaControl.java:605)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallAreaControl.initInstallInv(OiiiInstallAreaControl.java:650)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallAreaControl.loadInstallInventory(OiiiInstallAreaControl.java:517)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallAreaControl.initAreaControl(OiiiInstallAreaControl.java:1714)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallAreaControl.initAreaControl(OiiiInstallAreaControl.java:1667)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicStandardInvntorySession.initSession(OiicStandardInventorySession.java:261)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicStandardInvntorySession.initSession(OiicStandardInventorySession.java:218)
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicStandardInvntorySession.initSession(OiicStandardInventorySession.java:167)
at opatch.O2O.setupSession(O2O.java:535)
at opatch.O2O.setupInventory(O2O.java:597)
at opatch.O2O.setupInventoryThenRAC(O2O.java:1109)
at opatch.VerifyPatch.verify(VerifyPatch.java:227)
at opatch.VerifyPatch.main(VerifyPatch.java:901)

Verifying that patch ID is in Oracle Home inventory.
Verifying archive files.


Comparing "/app/oracle/product/v10105b/patches/6278898/files/server/lib/libmix.a/mixtm.o" and "/app/oracle/product/v10105b/.patch_storage/verify/server/lib/libmix.a/mixtm.o"

Source file name is : /app/oracle/product/v10105b/patches/6278898/files/server/lib/libmix.a/mixtm.o, size is : 2800

Destination file name(from OracleHome) is : /app/oracle/product/v10105b/.patch_storage/verify/server/lib/libmix.a/mixtm.o, size is : 2800

Archive failed: failed to update "/app/oracle/product/v10105b/server/lib/libmix.a" with updated "/app/oracle/product/v10105b/patches/6278898/files/server/lib/libmix.a/mixtm.o"

There are 1 issues patching static library in Oracle Home.

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