Re: ptf download confusion

OK when Joe says that thing had 'no PTFs applied' He is not kidding. WRKPTFGRP came up blank. Nothing at all. DSPPTF showed no marker PTFs for a single group either. There were a couple dozen MF PTFs applied and a like number on SS1. The few LPPs on the box (WDS was one of them) couldn't come up with a single PTF between them. And over in the corner is Joe running WDSC over TCP.

I participate in i5 Betas and I have never seen a system with so few PTFs in BETA!

Honestly the biggest problem was the TWINAX CONSOLE! So old it was that it had NO address assigned so it refused to be the console or any other device either. Once solved the poor machine came up on it's one disk drive, not PTFs and bad PS fan, um, sorry Air Movement Device. :-)

- L

Joe Pluta wrote:

From: Joe Pluta

Very scary. In fact, I don't know if it was scarier that Larry had all of
the OS software and PTFs and could install everything from his laptop, or
that earlier in the day I was able to get TCP/IP running on that same
machine without any PTFs applied at all <grin>.

As an aside, any claims as to a lack of robustness in WDSC are completely
exaggerated. WDSC ran perfectly without a single PTF applied; I was able to
edit, compile and even debug through WDSC all day without a hitch. Other
software was not quite so forgiving.

I had only one problem: the search capability uses FNDSTRPDM under the
covers, and as it turns out FNDSTRPDM gets VERY testy if you don't have
license keys applied properly. Other than that, WDSC was rock solid and
worked without a hiccup all day.

Joe