Re: PTF's Installed on Production Servers

Wow, you must have some real anal-retentive auditors. Are they worried about a 
PTF causing the system to fail or are they worried about the system getting 
hacked by a rogue PTF?

We typically load the PTFs on our test partition two days prior to applying it 
everywhere else. Before applying the PTFs on a system we do a full backup of 
the entire system.

PTF failures have been pretty rare for us. Once we had a defective MF PTF that 
caused the IPL on the test partition to fail, but that was it.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ketzes, Larry 
  To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
  Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:12 PM
  Subject: PTF's Installed on Production Servers


  I am getting pounded by auditors on an issue, and I would like to know what
  other admin's are doing about this.  Our auditors are asking to see testing
  resulting from installing ptf's from IBM on our Production Servers.
  Although I do have a test partition, I do not install every ptf I need on
  that partition first.  I do not have enough space on that partition for all
  testing of all applications just because I put on some ptf's!

  What are other folks doing?  We do go through a change process procedure
  that includes management approving the install of the ptf's.

  Thanks, Larry

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  Larry Ketzes
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  American Life Insurance Company

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