Re: Y2K Group PTF Potential Problem

To muddy the waters even further.  Last week I put the Y2K group PTF on 2 
AS/400s running
V4R3, and one asked for the second volume, and the other did not.  They were 
both at the
same CUM level.  So, as I read all these stories I have one explanation "Go 
Figure?"

Soap-box *ON
    The best things about an AS/400 is that we are carrying on a conversation 
about
whether or not we are asked about a 2nd CD, when the rest of the computer 
industry has
much bigger issues.

    I read a good quote last week, that said with the Advent of quicker and 
quicker PCs,
all it means is that your machines running Windows will crash quicker.  Soon, 
we will get
to the point where they will crash before they IPL.  :)

    Pete Massiello


Chuck Lewis wrote:

> 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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