Re: TCP/IP PTF Level -- MIDRANGE-L

Thank you all for your valuable contribution and guidance.

Scott,I checked the level of TCP/IP Group PTF(SF99315) and it is at level 12 on my system.

So going by all the recommendations I need to follow the following steps to install the group PTF for TCP/IP:

1.Install the Latest CUM PTF Package(this will install the latest group hiper and DB2 for system).The current level of CUM PTF Package is 9104 on my system. The current level from IBM is 10117

2.Install the latest TCP/IP Group PTF which is at level 15

Please let me know if my understanding is correct.

Thanks
Darell

--- On Fri, 22/10/10, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TCP/IP PTF Level
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, 22 October, 2010, 12:31 AM
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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