RE: PTF Understanding.

I changed the default for CHKPTF from *NO to *YES.
If not, you get many not needed PTFs, especially the products that include secondary languages.

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: PTF Understanding.

Ha, yeah forgot that one as I almost NEVER use SNDPTFORD....

Thanks!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 2/5/2016 1:59 PM, Bryan Dietz wrote:

you might want to make sure that you have CHKPTF(*YES)

default is *NO

Help Check PTF (CHKPTF) - Help

Specifies whether checking is performed on the service requester
system to determine if PTFs are ordered based on whether or not the
PTF product is installed or supported.


Bryan


DrFranken wrote on 2/5/2016 12:17 PM:

Long story for why, but on an i 7.1 partition with TR11 already
applied I did SNDPTFORD SF99707 when I meant SF99706.

(707= TR, 706=High Availability)

I realized it just as I whacked Enter. Then I decided as an
experiment to let it go. If TR11 is already applied then it should
just spin through every PTF in the group with "already Applied." ....
or so I thought.

... but it's downloading PTFs. Sure it spun through MANY as already
applied but that seems odd to me that if a group is already applied
that it could find new PTFs for that group.

NOTE: Yes many groups include other groups so that would make sense
but the TR group does not.

Thoughts?

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