RE: PTF's affecting system operation?

>A customer tells me they haven't applied PTF's to their development
>V5R2 S20 (sigh) in a year because they "don't want to affect the
>testing environment". 

Have they applied the PTFs in production? Or is this a case of wanting
the testing environment to match production? I can see not applying a
PTF in test until you're willing to apply it in production[1], but if
production has the PTF and test doesn't I'd say you're invalidating the
test anyway.

-Walden

[1] Obviously you would apply the PTF in test and if ok, then in
production. But the idea is one follows closely w/the other.

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Reeve
Sent: Wednesday, 12 January, 2005 21:34
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: PTF's affecting system operation?

A customer tells me they haven't applied PTF's to their development
V5R2 S20 (sigh) in a year because they "don't want to affect the
testing environment".

I go back to the System/38 pre-announcement meetings as an IBM'er and
have never heard this prattle before.  We expect such behavior with
Windows (actually, it doesn't even take a service pack, it just takes
another keystroke) but not with OS/400.  And since it's my application
in the testing environment, I'm reasonably (as in as close to 100% as
possible) sure there's nothing application-dependent going on.

Is this a CYA crock or is there merit in the customer's statement?

Thanks,
Reeve
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