Perm. apply PTF's thoughts

[Mike.Crump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Folks,

Historically, I've been remiss about permanently applying PTF's.
Originally, my thought process was that normally you see it as an item on
new releases with corresponding instructions to clean up disk space.  I've
never had storage problems around new release installs so I have forsaken
that process in the name of time.

I'm beginning to wonder how wise that is.  Doesn't that leave some
potential for PTF *SAVF's and other objects (potentially IFS) out there for
cleanup?  And couldn't those objects be in many different places on the
system (QSYSDIR, QIWS, QDNS, stream files in IFS directories, etc)?  What
do other people do with regards to perm apply of PTF's?  Do you think it is
easier to perm apply PTF's prior to a new release as opposed to cleaning
their tracks later or never?


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