The cume contains a large group of O/S and LPP PTFs that have been tested together, but not necessarily every PTF from any other specific group. If you are experiencing a problem in a specific area, i.e. JAVA, PRINT or TCP/IP you may need the Group PTF for that specific area as well.
Some PTF's may be in both the cume and a group PTF. The cume will also include the current HIPER and DB PTFs, and the WebSphere Group will include the JAVA and HTTP groups.
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Midwest Region Data Center
Fiserv.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:03 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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.
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