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I beg to differ laddie. We have 15 AS/400's. We actually had a production system at a higher level than our development machine. Our development machine was the only one that had an ECS line. We could order the PTF's from that one and then send it on to the production machine. I will grant you this - years ago on ancient releases you could not even order PTF's for higher releases of OS. Once the file is on your machine there is nothing stopping you from using SNDNETF to send it to the higher release machine. Although may I suggest you visit the IBM web site and use the option to download PTF's directly to your 400 from the internet via the PC that is doing the ordering? Works great for us. Uses something called socks to do it. Not a bad method. Will work until IBM makes the 400 ebusiness ready and allows you to order PTF's from the internet using SNDPTFORD. (Don't hold your breath.) I guess only Microsoft makes operating systems that will allow you to download fixes directly to their machines, from their machines. bdietz@3x.com on 12/03/99 10:47:34 PM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: Forcing PTF order to CD Since the PTF save file is a different release/version you cannot SNDNETF it. But you can FTP it to the V4R3 system. I used to do this all the time withe our V3R2 and V4R3 system. The only thing you need to be carefull about is any pre/co-req PTF's. they won't come along when the ptf is ordered to a "wrong" version system Bryan Dietz "Boring, David M" <david.boring@eds.c To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com om> cc: Sent by: Subject: Forcing PTF order to CD owner-midrange-l@mi drange.com 12/03/99 04:57 PM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L Is there any way, through ECS, to order a PTF and force it to ship on CD? I have a machine at V430 that does not have an ECS modem and I wanted to order the PTF through a machine with V410. It downloaded the file to QGPL on the V410 machine, but since it is an up-version file I'm not even sure if I can save it to tape. Any thoughts? Thanks! David Boring Systems Engineer - Advanced EDS E.solutions consulting Direct: (562) 809-5460 E-mail: david.boring@eds.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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