Re: change management for ptf's

Rob,

Now that you're at V7 (if I remember correctly) you can use a single image catalog on one machine to apply to all of them. No need to copy the files around anymore. Is that not worth a tiny bit of overhead (which I might argue is no more than storing the save file in QGPL)

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 5/23/2012 7:43 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've never put an individual ptf in an image catalog entry. That sounds
like a lot of overhead. But thanks.


Rob Berendt
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 05/23/2012 08:40 AM Subject: Re: change management for ptf's Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx Rob, To the best of my recollection, there is no way to distinguish between a PTF that IBM is calling "test" and one that was put out for general download. I think your only record keeping method is a manual one. I tend to keep PTFs in image catalogs separated by type: Groups/Cumulative Individual PTFs Test PTFs That way the image catalog is helping me track which PTF is which. I also tend to fill in the text on the Image catalog entry with the reason for the individual PTF be it test or otherwise. Jim Oberholtzer Chief Technical Architect Agile Technology Architects On 5/23/2012 7:25 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I was recently taken to task on this list for not using proper change
> management for PTF's, with the person believing it would help me with my
> quest to find test ptf's and ensure that I do not permanently apply

them.

>
> What would the change management for that be?
>
> We've used multiple change management systems for programs and that

genre

> but I'm not sure how they would handle PTF's.
>
> And, when it comes down to the original problem, would they help me

track

> test ptf's?
>
> I'm thinking of just adding any test ptf's to a calendar entry that I

have

> a few days before scheduled downtime.
>
> Oh, and I can 'never' use APYPTF LICPGM(*ALL) on any lpar running Domino
> (8 out of 10). Because if I have
> Product ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 5733L85
> PTF
> ID Status
> L603893 Temporarily applied
> FP68531 Permanently applied
> where FP68531 is fix pack 1 for Domino 8.5.3 enabled for 6.1 and above,

I

> have to remove hotfix L603893 before applying fix pack 2. Domino fix
> packs do not superceed hot fixes. Documented by IBM in steps to apply
> Domino fix packs.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
> -- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept
> 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108
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