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I keep all the current PTF images (as well as a full OS build stack) on my laptop on an extra USB HD velcroed to the top. This turns out to be a VERY handy thing to have along. For example recently I was asked to help with a 520 that was 'missing some stuff'. (indeed!). Within an hour we were IPLing to do PTFs. Without it we would have been there way past happy hour!

So long as you select 'All PTFs' rather than allowing Fix Central to determine the delta between a specific machine and the current group you can put them anywhere. Not only is this simpler than re-ordering it is MUCH faster than plastic disks.

Management central is very cool but you will NEVER get that to work between different customers due to security and other issues.

- Larry

Urbanek, Marty wrote:
Jim,

You could use Fix Central
http://www-912.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral/main/iseries/

to create CD images to download. Select the options that say include all
PTFs for application on multiple machines and to download via FTP. After
the images are created, download them all to one system and then you can
copy them from that system to your others via whatevr method you choose.

Then you load them into an image catalog and use GO PTF option 8 to
install.

I doubt you could have a direct connection between various customers'
machines due to network security, but I don't see why you couldn't FTP
the CD images onto your PC and then FTP them from your PC to whatever
customer machine you were working on.

-Marty


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