RE: 'On order only' PTFs

Why wouldn't you just apply these PTFs for your installed products?

I understand that out of the 1000's of PTFs released in the last 10
years or so there have been at least two that have had undesirable
effects, but do you really want to wait until a problem occurs and then
spend valuable time trying to determine what the problem actually is
before installing PTFs or would you rather be ahead of the game and
solve these problems proactively?

In my mind there is nothing worse than having to do two IPLs to get up
to snuff on PTFs before support will even help diagnose a problem.

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:38:15 -0500
from: ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
subject: 'On order only' PTFs



I've got a number of PTFs in 'On order only' status for various LICPGMs
on
my systems.  For the most part, these came from Service Director
automatic
PTF orders that resulted in shipments on CD media and I have no
intention
of loading these unless a specific need comes up.  I periodically review
and load the PTFs that Service Director pulls down automatically in
electronic format, but these CDs are packed with them and I have no
desire
to review/load them unless a specific need arises.  The volume is just
too
great...

Are there any benefits/drawbacks to leaving them in that state or
cleaning
them up?  I'd like to clean them up (with DLTPTF i'm guessing, haven't
tried yet), but i'm wondering if there's a good reason to keep them in
that
state?


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