Re: Forcing PTF order to CD

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

i think what he meant was that if you order a specific ptf that's for a
different machine, it can't check the machine and send any prerec or
corec ptf's.  that is true, i've been burned by that before too.

nj
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