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  3. April 2005

RE: Applying PTF's Permanently

Hi Al,

> I don't necessarily ever change them to *PERM.  Keeping them 
> as *TEMP as long as possible is beneficial, because you can 
> always back them off.  The system does a good job of 
> automatically changing them to *PERM when it wants to overlay 
> them.  Only once have I had to re-load a release, because I 
> had a bad PTF that I had made *PERM.


I keep them *TEMP between O/S releases. Applying *PERM is one of the steps
in the V5R3 upgrade documentation (although it clearly seems optional), and
I like to follow those guides religiously. 


John Taylor

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