Re: Y2K Group PTF Potential Problem

That's the CUM package. The instructions say IT will ask for the second CD if 
needed
(like it has ALWAYS worked...)

The Y2K PTF's Group PTF is the one that DOES NOT ask for the 2nd cd...

Chuck

Jim Langston wrote:

> I just received the CUM package for V3R7M0 about 4
> days ago on 2 CDs.  The CUM package for V3R7M0 is
> not this way.
>
> I, also, had only had to put in the first CD.  Just now I tested
> by putting in the second CD and GO PTF and 8 Install Package,
> and a message on QSYSOPR told me to stick in the first CD.
>
> So the last CUM for V3R7M0 is a "normal" PTF type.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
>
> > Yep, I was told this by support when I talked with them Monday. They 
>SPECIFICALLY
> > mentioned this (I was getting a cum tape, hiper and the Y2K stuff for 
>V4R1...)
> > and I started to ask WHY they did that with this one but got sidetracked. I 
>do
> > seem to remember someone else posting that to Midrange-L earlier this month 
>or I
> > got an alert from SOMEWHERE else.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > franz99@attglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > > IBM has been updating the Group PTF for Y2K recently, and recently
> > > the shipment has been 2 cd's. Weeks ago I loaded the ptfs on 10 AS/400s.
> > >
> > > Each machine, some at V3R7, some V4R2 only asked for the 1st cd. Assumed
> > >
> > > no ptfs on the 2nd cd related to my machines. Today I checked the IBM
> > > site for
> > > new changes, and found the following text in the PSP "Both media volumes
> > > included
> > > in this order should be treated as separate single PTF orders. There is
> > > not a prompt
> > > to load the second volume." I must have missed that in the PSP several
> > > weeks ago
> > > (I did lose my glasses a while ago), or it just wasn't there.
> > > Today I updated several machines with the 2nd cd, and indeed, more ptfs
> > > were loaded.
> > > I would recommend that anyone who has not loaded the Y2K Group PTFs
> > > recently
> > > do so. There seems to be a number of recent additions. The label on the
> > > 2nd cd,
> > > labelled "2 of 2" will not automatically load after the 1st cd (like
> > > every other ptf
> > > process I have ever seen from IBM). See the site AS400service.ibm.com
> > > for
> > > Info Apars & PSP. The Group PTF SF99200 is for V3R7, V4R1,2,3,4. SF99201
> > > is
> > > for V3R2.
> > > Jim Franz
> > > Systematic Control, Inc
> > > jfranz@sysctl.com
> > >
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