Re: PTF Groups

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

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Jeff,

There are two internet ways of ordering PTF's.  One connects to your
iSeries.  One doesn't.  I use the first much like SNDPTFORD and I want it
to check for coreq's, prereq's, etc.  When I want a cum or any group ptf's
I use the second method.  The advantage to the second method are:
1)  You get 3 emails for every order:
 a)  Here is your order number
 b)  Here is your order number and Airborne tracking number
 c)  Here is your order number, Airborne tracking number, and Airborne
just left with the package.
2) For fat fingered folks like you, you enter each order on a separate
line like
SF99501
SF99069
etc

Interactive ordering:
http://as400service.rochester.ibm.com/p_dir/ptforder.nsf

Via Airborne:
http://service.software.ibm.com/as400.us.reg/orderptfmedia?lang=english|1

Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




"Jeff Silberberg" <jsilberberg@mindspring.com>
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NOPE !!!!!!!!!!!

        I ordered V4R5 stuff last week, after attempting to input the
string
into the iPTF process a number of times, I finally gave up and went green
screen, did a sndptford for all eight packages delaying the report step.
Then I hooked up the modem, and reported them as one group.  Well, I still
got eight Airbourne Packages, although the driver only had to come out
once.

        Why in this day of OPS NAV (I should have a list box of those
PTF's/Packages available for my system to just select from), high speed
Internet, and relational Databases is this so hard. They doing the backend
processing in IBM DOS or something ????

        Jeff Silberberg.

PS: The AIX world has had a great process for years, maybe we will when
AIX
comes to iSeries..


----- Original Message -----
From: <rob@dekko.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: PTF Groups


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> The problem is that IBM is now trying to save money by combining
multiple
> groups into one Airborne package.  I used to use address three for which
> AS/400 and which group.
>
> I don't know how they determine when someone is doing this and when the
> locations really are physically different.
>
> Rob Berendt
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