Y2K Group PTF Potential Problem -- MIDRANGE-L

Ray,

Don't feel alone in your confusion.  Quite a few others have also been
confused on the CDs; and service has been recently asked to not combine
Cums, Groups, and Hipers in the same internal order.  You can still order
them all at one time but service will enter it as 3 separate orders.
The problem, as you discovered, is if you order different PTF packages
at the same time then the labels are grouped together.  Though you
really had two distinct PTF orders (2 CDs for Y2K and 2 for the Cum)
the labels implied a set of 4.  An order made today should not result
in the difficult to understand "set of 4".

I am guessing (I'm sure there's some way to track what B7520295 contained
but I'm more Y2K than service and so don't know how right off) that the
Y2K PTFs were the first two CDs (the label having SF99200 implies that
as SF99200 is the RISC Y2K Group), the latest Cum the last 2 CDs, and
the TCP fix was either already integrated into the Y2K or Cum (or both),
or the TCP fix was on the first CD.

If you only applied the 2nd (of 4) CDs to the V4R2 and V4R3 systems then
I suspect you are missing some of the Y2K PTFs and need to use the
CD labeled 1 of 4.  Your V4R4 system should have everything (relevant to
V4R4) as all four CDs were used.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

>
>Now I am confused, and am not sure what I have on my PTF CD's.
>
>We were having a TCP problem on a v4r4 system.  Support identified some
>ptf's that we needed to order and asked us to also load the latest cum.
>They offered to place the order for me(nice, thanks).  I asked if I
>could add my y2k ptf order as well.  And they did.  The date of the
>order is 12/06/1999.  Order #B7520295.
>
>The cd's I received are each labeled "Group PTF #: SF99200".   The Srv
>Req:  line on each CD is:  CD 001 of 004  Srv Req: AS/400(R) ADV Series
>                           CD 002 of 004  Srv Req: Y2K PTFs-370,410,420,
>430,440 SF90200-PTFs through 11/18/1999
>                           CD 003 of 004  Srv Req: AS/400(R) ADV Series
>                                          V4 IBM Cumulative PTF Package
>                           CD 004 of 004  Srv Req: AS/400(R) ADV Series
>                                          V4 IBM Cumulative PTF Package
>
>I took this to mean that CD 1 was my TCP fix, CD 2 was my y2k fixes, and
>CD's 3 + 4 were my v4r4 cum CD's.  Now, based on your post, I'm not so
>sure. It seems one of two scenarios has happened:  1)  That first CD
>contains my TCP fixes only and I received only part of the y2k fixes
>or, 2) that first CD contains my TCP fixes and part of the y2k group,
>which didn't get installed on some of my AS/400's..
>
>I've applied all four CD's to our v4r4 systems.  I applied only the y2k
>cd to our v4r2 and v4r3 systems. Did I miss some y2k ptf's on the v4r2,
>v4r3 systems?  Would all of the y2k ptfs have been included in the v4r4
>since I used all 4 CD's?
>
>I'd appreciate any suggestions you might have!
>
>Ray
>


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