Re: Applying Cumes

From re- Pete:

No. The Cume and the Groups are different. As I understand it, the Cume is for base OS and that is it. Way back when, ALL you got was a Cume and then as the OS became more sophisticated there would be "special" PTF's grouped together to take care of specific issues. I was never a sys admin so I can't say what the evolution of the Cume vs groups was, but the first group I recall having to order in addition to a Cume was a database group. Groups used to be a rare thing. Now they are pretty standard.

Each group covers a different program area or installed licensed program. Hit F11 on the wrkptfgrp screen and you can see what each group is for:

SF99530 CUMULATIVE PTF PACKAGE C7016530 SF99529 GROUP HIPER SF99503 DB2 UDB FOR ISERIES SF99314 TCP/IP GROUP PTF SF99301 WEBSPHERE APP SERVER V6.0 SF99275 WEBSPHERE APP SERVER - EXPRESS V5.1
SF99269 JAVA SF99173 IBM BUSINESS SOLUTIONS SF99099 IBM HTTP SERVER FOR ISERIES
You can see I am a bit behind on my PTF Cume and groups (I'll do that over Christmas. I spent Thanksgiving building a new WinTel server - some holiday....) Anyhoo, the Cume will address base OS fixes and enhancements. Best to get it and have all you bases covered.

I think when you finish this round you should order the "Kiss me, I'm a Sys Admin" T-shirt! Fun, ain't it?

Pete (Helgren)


Aaron Bartell wrote:

Ah ha! I went back into FixCentral and realized why I didn't select the
cume one. I thought that was one of those dropdown summary section
groupings type deals. I have now just ordered it. Will this help
considering I updated all the others manually outside of the cume? My
understanding of the cume is that it would cover all the group PTF's I just
loaded - is that correct?

Thanks Pete,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:33 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Applying Cumes

Aaron,

Don't un-cork the champagne just yet. Your cumulative package is
over 1 year old. How come you are so far back. Did you just get the Group
PTFs, and not the Cumulative package. That is SF99530.

Pete