RE: Immediate PTF -- What's the point?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike, after I read that I gave up at V5R1. I think the problem is that load 
here means to load the image in to the catalog, not to load the PTF. Talk 
about overLOADing operators!

Vern

At 05:57 PM 4/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> Tom,
>
> The way I read it, it was more of warning that was worded poorly but I
> knew what it meant.  It takes an IPL to apply no matter how it is done,
> immediate or delayed.  It was worded poorly at best.
>
> Here's a good one for you.  I am getting ready to take our Model 270 up
> to V5R2.  I downloaded the PTF's so that I could build an Image Catalog
> for the install of V5R2.  In the cover letter for 5722SS1 SI03120, which
> gives the instructions for building and using the image catalog at V5R1,
> has a paragraph that is so circular it is not funny.  On page 6, the
> first paragraph under the -- RESTRICTIONS -- section it says:
>
> "This PTF supports only the preparation and upgrade to V5R2M0 and
> subsequent supported upgrade paths from V5R1M0.  PTF and Licensed
> Program installation are not supported in V5R1M0.  If you have PTF or
> Licensed Program images you can load these images in the image catalog
> being used for the upgrade."
>
> So, can I load the PTF CUME as an image in the catalog or not?  The
> above paragraph tells me I can't but yet I can in the same paragraph!
> That's right up there with "This Page Intentionally Left Blank."  :-)
>
> Just for grins, does anyone know if the CUME Package can be loaded and
> applied from the Image Catalog while still at V5R1 and apply it once
> V5R2 is installed?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Shaw