Re: TCP/IP PTF Level

Scott,

When you view the list of ptfs in a group on the IBM site, it will tell you which are on cumes (and what cume) and which are not.
The far right column, the 0215 is a cume level, the 1000 means it's not on a cume.
PTF DATE APAR LICENSED CUMULATIVE
NUMBER ADDED PROGRAM PACKAGE
*************************************************
MF50442 06/16/10 MA39638 5761999 0215
MF50361 06/07/10 MA39609 5761999 0215
MF50359 06/07/10 MA39609 5761999 0215
MF49396 05/25/10 MA38759 5761999 1000
MF49286 05/25/10 MA39115 5761999 0215
MF49215 05/25/10 MA39036 5761999 0215
MF49213 05/25/10 MA38863 5761999 0215
MF48927 05/25/10 MA38902 5761999 1000
MF48884 05/25/10 MA38831 5761999 1000
MF48847 05/25/10 MA38870 5761999 1000
MF48844 05/25/10 MA38876 5761999 0215

Ibmer's at Common have described (to me) the cume's as the group of ptfs most widely required. They were never intended to be "all" fixes.

Good site for all fixes:
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/fixes/

Jim Franz

----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:02 PM
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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