Re: System applied unloaded PTFs

[Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

I would expect that if you took the option 8 to "Install program temporary
fix package" from the PTF menu, and then selected option 3 for the Prompt
for media.  My experience is that the PTFs from the DVDs (or optical
images) and any save file downloaded PTFs will be applied.  The help for
this option is;

3=Multiple volume sets and *SERVICE
    Specifies to prompt for volumes in multiple volume sets when
    loading the PTFs.  After PTFs are loaded from the last volume
    set, PTFs will be loaded from the service support system
    (*SERVICE).  This option is also used to install PTFs from a
    single volume set and from *SERVICE.

For me this loads the PTFs in save files located in QGPL.

HTH

Jim


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Had in interesting one Friday night.
>
> On 7.1
>
> As of Friday morning, I had TR 6 set to be applied via a Friday night IPL I
> would do from home, as well as a few other PTFs that were previously
> downloaded and set to apply.
>
> I decided to download all the other groups I could think of via SNDPTFORD
> on Friday and leave them as "Save File Only."  Then, if I got a wild hair
> over the weekend, I could load and apply those as well with another IPL.
>
> Lo and behold, when I did that IPL Friday night, not only did it do a
> double IPL (which I was sorta expecting), it also loaded and applied all
> those PTFs (100+) that had been in Save File Only status. Note that I did
> no LODPTF, APYPTF, or INSPTF after downloading them.
>
> I did not expect those newly downloaded ones to apply.  I hadn't even read
> the cover letters, which I usually do via DSPPTFCVR *NOTAPY.
>
> Is what happened (applying those in Save File Only status) what the rest of
> you would have expected to happen?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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