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  • Subject: Re: NEWI Daemon & IPLing
  • From: DAsmussen@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:47:32 EST

Dennis,

In a message dated 12/28/99 3:40:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
DMunro@badgerminingcorp.com writes:

> I'm not sure what you are saying.  
>  
>  If you are referring to Hyper PTF's, no I don't look at them & I know I
>  should.
<<snip>>

What I meant was that many vendors will ask if you're on the latest CUM.  
Being on the latest CUM is often not adequate, based upon your configuration 
and what IBM deemed necessary for its' CUM build.  That's why SSA wants you 
to check the APAR site instead of just loading the CUM and thinking you're 
OK.  Not to get _TOO_ technical, but my particular example involved several 
PTF's that resolved security issues a few years back.  Without those PTF's, 
PC users could (pretty much indiscriminately) do nasty things to the system 
via Client Access or ODBC without our being able to block them or even 
adequately track them.  Despite being reported by the COMMON Security Task 
Force and fixed by IBM almost immediately, the PTF's that fixed the problem 
didn't show up on a CUM for over a year!  In effect, you had to know about 
the problem before you got the solution to it -- the way to know about the 
problem was _NOT_ something you wanted to discover after the fact.  CUM does 
not necessarily equate to "everything you need".

JME,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I 
hate." -- George Burns
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