RE: Installing Websphere Portal -- IPL Required?

I've seen PTFs like that that require you end TCP or other subsystems.
I would dare say that in our shop it's probably quicker to do an IPL
than to end the subsystems and follow all of the instructions to apply
the PTF "immediately"!!

Joel B. Harvell
Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709

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Subject: Re: Installing Websphere Portal -- IPL Required?

Strictly from a ptf perspective and not a WAS perspective, I would think

yes.  But depending on what group ptf's.  IBM has gotten better on what 
ptf's need an ipl.  They still have a long way to go.  Often it is
easier 
to send instructions to do a GO PTF 8 and tell it to IPL than to say,
not 
to IPL but then do a APYPTF LICPGM(*ALL) APY(*TEMP) DELAYED(*NO) and
hope 
they all IPL.  Complications from that include
- You may run in to some ptf's that do require an IPL and you'll have to

IPL anyway
- IBM trick of not requiring an IPL, but a particular ptf may require
that 
you end so much stuff that you might as well IPL.  Recently I've seen
some 
that either require we end TCP/IP or even bring our system into a 
restricted state.  On our systems bringing down tcp/ip means you might
as 
well IPL because there isn't a user here who won't notice it.

Resistance is futile.  You will be assimilated.

Rob Berendt