After I sent the original question, I remembered attending a session at COMMON on Systems Management. I recall that the presenter said that the specific PTF's were sorted before being applied. Don't recall what order, or if that was even mentioned. In which case, I suppose, the order of the images doesn't matter, anyway.
I have multiple systems, too. As Rob said in another message, I, too, use the "Do not connect" and "Order prerequisites for multiple machines". I just use FTP or Drag-and-Drop (depends upon my mood) to copy the images to the second system. Since the second system is our production machine, I put the copy in after hours so that it doesn't cause a drag on production. But we're a 10 x 5 shop, not a 24 x 7.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From what I understand, it being a single image catalog allows the
images to be "out of order" and it doesn't matter. I've had the same
issue for the
past 4 ptf installations, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do the sort(*yes) or the system sorts it again when it verifies prior to loading. I have not had any issues with getting my ptf updates to work. Currently at V5R4 for all my systems, if only there were a way for a "central"
repository without having to ftp the images across to all the servers. I've even used one system as the master server to install ptf's over. But that didn't work as well as hoped. It ended up being easier to just drag the files over using iSeries Navigator to an already created IFS folder and add the images there without recreating them. I have the same basic IFS folder in all of my i machines, so I have a text file that I just copy each line into each machine and add the image. It takes about 5 seconds per image per server to copy and run the command. For 3 prod server and 3 dev servers, I can load images on all dev boxes in about 15 minutes, the same thing about a month or two later for my prod boxes. I just paste the command on eache machine in turn to keep them in order and have 3 term's open at the same time; it works for me. If you need the commands that I use, I'll be more than happy to explain it further.
Good luck,
Bill Epperson Jr.
Systems Communications Analyst
Memorial Health System
(719) 365-8831
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I installed the latest Cume for v5r4 on Saturday from an image catalogue. When I first downloaded the Cume and loaded it, I verified it with the
SORT(*No) option since I had loaded it in the order listed in the PTF instructions.
The PTF install does its own verify. When I used WRKIMGCLG just a few minutes ago to unload and remove the images, I noticed that the images were listed in the following order:
SF99540_10
SF99540_11
SF99540_12
SF99540_1
Etc
SF99540_9
Apparently the PTF install's verify uses SORT(*Yes) option to get the images in this order. The PTF install completed successfully (or so the completion log says).
I thought that the order of the images (CD's) mattered. It seems that this idea was in error. Or is there a potential problem with the order into which the PTF install process puts the images?
Thanks.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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