RE: Immediate PTF -- What's the point?

Tom,

What's the point then of releasing a ptf as immediate if it requires any 
of the following:
- You must bring the system into a restricted state.
- You must end TCP/IP
- Or, in the olden days, you must vary off/on all twinaxial controllers.
Depending you your situation, you might as well have to apply it delayed.

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
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Al:

Please review the cover letter for V5R2 5722SS1-SI08258. Although the PTF 
can be applied immediate or delayed, there are explicit "ACTIVATION 
INSTRUCTIONS:" that effectively cause this to be a delayed PTF even if 
applied immediate. And I did in fact apply it immediate.

My question was about the point of IBM's releasing this as allowing 
immediate even though an IPL was still needed. Overall, I wasn't so much 
complaining as simply trying to get ideas about why IBM did it this way.

I.e., What's the point?

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   9. Re: Immediate PTF -- What's the point? (Al Barsa)
>
>I've been watching this thread, and this statement is incorrect.
>
>At 08:17 PM 4/7/2003, you wrote:
>>    If this PTF is applied as an immediate PTF, an IPL of the system is
>> required to activate this PTF.

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