Re: IBM Cume and Group PTF Change?

I have not heard of a 'change of philosophy' specifically but what I do know is that historically the release of CUMes slows as the release matures. IBM i 7.1 has been out for 3 1/2 years and is still the current release. Contrast this with V3 which went only 4 years from GA to end of support (Not just end of being the current release.) and V3R7 and V4R2 went only 2 1/2 years and out!

Much of the reduction in rate of release for CUMes has to do with fewer things needing to be fixed as the release goes on. Effort is going into 'Rnext' (Now 7.2) etc as well as the release stabilizes.

Additionally IBM i 7.1 introduced the Technology Refresh group which dramatically upped the ability of IBM to deliver new function to an existing release. Since each TR group effectively replaces the LIC that's a lot of stuff a CUMe just isn't needed for at that point.

Add to that as others mentioned, there are a lot of groups that are also updated much more frequently now, 25 DB Groups and 23 HTTP groups at this point come to mind!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

P.S. IBM i upgrade planning and release dates are here for reference:
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/suptschedule.html

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On 11/10/2013 5:08 PM, Sam_L wrote:

Our BP tells us there is an IBM change (in philosophy?) on cumes and
group PTFs. Specifically, he said this:

"I learned today, working with IBM, that cumulative ptf's have been
transitioned to groups and cumulative will not be issued as often. I
will check again monday and see what is available and let you know."

I'm not sure what this means? Anyone else heard about this?

It came about while looking for the latest cume, which IBM was
projecting for Nov 1 and as of Thursday didn't seem to be available.

Sam