Re: Removing a damaged PTF

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:47 PM 4/16/98 +1000, James Turnbull wrote:
>Anyone have any ideas on removing a PTF that became damaged during
>application.  DLTPTF doesn't work neither does RMVPTF.  IBM's
>instructions are to reinstall the PTF then try deleting it.  However the
>deletion process damages the PTF and thus it can't be deleted.
>Irritating.

James,

I recently faced the same problem. The procedure that finally worked was LODPTF 
followed immediately by RMVPTF *Perm. What RMVPTF was apparently balking at was 
the fact that it couldn't temporarily remove a PTF that hadn't been temporarily 
applied. If could however remove the PTF permanently. In my case, since I 
didn't really want the PTF applied anyway, I immediately followed up with a 
very satisfying DLTPTF. A word of warning though: Don't DLTPTF before you 
successfully remove it, because you can't remove the PTF if the save file 
doesn't exist. You'll end up trying to find it on the tape or downloading it 
via ECS <grrrrr>.

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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