Re: PTF Image Catalogue Order

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry,

You could run a VFYIMGCLG and specify SORT(*YES)...

Happy New Year!!


Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I ordered the latest Cume for V5R4, which contained fifteen [15] images.  I
> did the ADDIMGCLGE in the order of the images, such as SF99540_1.bin first
> and SF99540_15.bin last.  I, also, downloaded some other groups and added
> these after the Cume.
>
> Next I ran the CPYPTFCVR procedure, which automatically does a VFYIMGCLG of
> Type(*PTF).
>
> Using the WRKIMGCLG I see that the order of the images is:
>            SF99540_11
>            SF99540_12
>            SP99540_13
>            SF99540_14
>            SF99540_15
>            SF99114_1 (through _8)
>            SP99540_1 (through _10)
>
> I "think" that I recall from a COMMON session that the PTF apply process is
> smart enough (somehow) to put the PTFs in the proper order.  If I remembered
> that correctly, the order of the images shouldn't matter.
>
> But did I get it right?
>
> Reordering the images probably wouldn't do a bit of good because, when
> using image catalogues, the PTF process does a verify again, anyway, so it
> would probably just sort 'em back to the sequence above.
>
> Jerry C. Adams
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