RE: V7R1 SNDPTFORD issue - PTFs mailed

I use Fix Central and image catalogs, although I'm considering switching to SNDPTFORD because I think it would be faster (not to mention simpler for my alt).

I think it saves much more than 20% time to customize my PTF order, paring it down from 10 disks down to a fraction of a single disk.



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From: Jim Oberholtzer [mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 1:54 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: V7R1 SNDPTFORD issue - PTFs mailed

You must be still on V7R1 or ordering the groups individually. If you order SF99711, or SF99721, or SF99731 depending on OS level you'll get all the groups (not the cumulative) but the duplicate PTFs are compressed out so you only get each PTF once. V7R3 is currently at 5 DVD images and V7R3 at 7. V7R1 is up to 10 I think. (all including the Cumulative)

You might think that wasteful to download PTFs you already have, but PTFs do get updated occasionally when there is a defective or other problem with the image, and you'll always avoid missing pre/co requisites this way. The savings in download time between doing all of them and using SNDPTFORD to customize the download is maybe 20% so it's not really saving that much.

Items like PowerHA and a couple of other LPPs will need some individual PTFs almost every time since they don't get added to the group all that quickly.

If SNDPTFORD works for you, go for it, but as Rob indicated for multiple partitions once you get the hang of it, the NFS load works really well.

Hint: if you did not know IBM created an API to empty and refill an image catalogs.

" call qvoifimg parm('IMAGECATALOGNAME' '*ALL' 0) "

The '*ALL' in upper case is important.


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects