Re: TCP/IP PTF Level

Hi Rob,

On 10/21/2010 2:42 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Ordering and installing a cume will not upgrade the level of your tcp/ip
group.

Then I'm _very_ confused.

My understanding is that the cume contains the PTF groups levels from _before_ the cume was built. That you install extra group PTFs so you can get fixes from _after_ the cume was built.

Are you telling me that the fixes in the PTF groups will never appear in a cume? So anything that has group PTFs is only updated by the group PTFs?

IBM, by default, ships the latest hiper and db2 group available at
the date you ordered your cume but includes no other groups.

That's true -- but they do that so that you'll have any HIPER/DB2 fixes that created _after_ the cume was built. At least, that's what I always thought!

I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from installing the group PTFs! Just that you update the cume first, since it might bump your group level from say 13 to 14. Then you still have to install the latest group to get it completely up to 15.