RE: Rebuilding PTF indexes -- MIDRANGE-L

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Sooooooooo, are you confirming something I already suspected?  That we
have no cume PTFs installed on this box?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bvining@vnet.ibm.com [SMTP:bvining@vnet.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:47 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Rebuilding PTF indexes
>
> The software that you receive from IBM when ordering a release is
> periodically updated.  What happens is that IBM loads the software on
> a central system, applies PTFs, REsaves that software, and then uses
> that resave for future distributions of the software.  PTF markers
> such
> as RE98316 indicates that your software represents a resave that
> was performed on the 316th day of 1998.  The entry RE98316 does not
> represent a PTF in terms of a specific fix, rather it represents a
> level of the software originally received.
>
> Bruce
>
> >
> >Nobody's ever been able to tell me what the RE entries are...
> >

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