RE: Serious service issue when ordering ptf media.

I won't get them in time.  According to the UPS tracking I won't get them 
until Monday.  In fact the UPS tracking said they held the ptf's for one 
whole business day (from about midnight until about 6:30PPPPM) waiting on 
billing information.  I'm sure that can be one point for IBM and UPS to 
get into a pi$$ing contest over.  Fortunately I had another copy that came 
in on Airborne for another system.  I used them on the rest of the systems 
by doing this:
md '/fixes'
CRTDEVOPT DEV(OPTVRT01) RSRCNAME(*VRT) ONLINE(*YES) TEXT('Virtual optical 
drive for image catalog')
VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTVRT01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)
CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) DIR('/fixes') TEXT('PTF image catalog')
ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) FROMDEV(OPT01) (repeat for each CD)
WRKIMGCLGE PTFCATALOG

Then when I am ready to load them, (after the saves) I'll just do:
WRKCFGSTS *DEV OPTVRT01
Vary it on
LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) DEV(OPTVRT01)
VFYIMGCLG IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) TYPE(*PTF) SORT(*YES)
GO PTF
8. Install program temporary fix package
Device  . . . . . . . . .   OPTVRT01
Automatic IPL . . . . . .   N

Tested this on one system and it's pretty slick.

Granted, I could have used the CD's on each machine instead of the image 
catalogs.  However I wanted to play with the image catalogs more so that 
in the future I will FTP the PTF's down and screw relying on IBM and UPS 
to get them here in time.

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





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Too bad Rob.

As I have noted, we have our new 810 in and IBM was in the last two days 
to
get LPAR all setup. On Tuesday they called and asked that I submit a 
certain
PTF # via our 620 (that kicked off an order for all the V5R2 PTF's; hyper,
DB, etc.) and the next day I got TWO sets. I think the reason for two was
that the line failed during the initial request and it must have failed
AFTER IBM got the request but before I got the acknowledgement. So I sent
the order again. Both arrived via Airborne... Hopefully you will get them
today or tomorrow !

Chuck

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Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Serious service issue when ordering ptf media.

I will probably have to do that (ftp ptf's to virtual optical drive) for
this weekend.  I don't have any hope that IBM can get their act together 
in
a timely fashion.

Rob Berendt



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