RE: V5R1 CUM3147 .. Superseded already!

My suspicion is that they found a PTF in the first CUM that broke something
significant.  This does happen from time to time, and IBM is good about
owning up to the fact and fixing it.

Al

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midrange-l-bounces+barsa2=attglobal.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/26/2003
01:10:04 PM:

> http://www-912.ibm.com/a_dir/as4ptf.nsf/PTFBYNUMORDER2/SF99510?OpenDocum
> ent&ptfnumber=SF99510
>
> 3147 has been superceded by 3175.  That's less than a month apart.
> Anyone know why the CUM was updated so quickly?  I haven't heard of any
> problems with 3147.
>
> BTW, the next V5R1 CUM is still slated for 12/29/2003.
>
> - John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffry Kennedy [mailto:jkennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:05 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: V5R1 CUM3147 .. Anyone applied this yet?
>
>
> I just finished it on my test LPAR yesterday. I also did the Hiper, DB,
> WEbSp, BRMS, JAVA and performance tools. I did SI03120 & SI03125 for the
> Image Catalog for installing V5R2. It took about 90 minutes to IPL and
> 60 minutes to apply the PTF's (LPAR has 10% of 820)
>
> I haven't had any problem with the fixes.
>
> "Jones, John (US)" wrote:
>
> > I normally defer updates for a few months but I've got to install
> > DB2/SMP on one of our systems, which means reapplying 3007/db/HIPER to
>
> > make sure SMP matches the rest of the system.  Since I've got to load
> > those CDs anyway, I may as well get current so I'm considering
> > applying 3147 (along with the current db & HIPER groups).  Has anyone
> > already applied the update and if so, would you mind sharing your
> > experience? Any 'gotchas'?  When I loaded 3007/db/HIPER, I loaded the
> > CUM, db, HIPER and did a single IPL; any problems keeping it simple
> > like that?
> >
> > Main OS components we use include HTTP server, Net.Data, Developer
> > Toolset (RPG, C, C++), Netserver, Java, Performance Tools, Query
> > Manager, Client Access Express, Windows Integration (IPCS).  We also
> > just switched to Ops Console.
> >
> > I do have a current SAVSYS.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John A. Jones
> > Americas Security Administrator
> > Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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