Symptom
We have an alert from our solution manager regarding the os collector where the Alert text shows the above message “Saposcol: data collection not up to date”
Solution
On AIX, this usually means the saposcol program has crashed, but the shared memory has not been released. Most of the time this can be corrected by running
saposcol -f (force option).
Another way to release shared memory I describe in post Problem with stop/start saposcol