Re: UPDPTF / DLTPTF

If you order a PTF on one system, and copy the save file over to another
and install from that save file the save file is not "registered" as part
of the PTF. So, when it comes cleanup time it gets left behind. UPDPTFINF
fixes this.

When you order a PTF, and apply it temporarily or permanently it still
leaves the save file from before you loaded it and applied it on your
system. If you do the DLTPTF it removes that save file and removes the
cover letter members from QGPL/QAPZCOVER. RMVPTF is for actually taking a
PTF off of your system, not just deleting the crumbs left behind that
DLTPTF does. I reserve RMVPTF for defective PTF's.

When you apply a ptf temporarily it saves the objects it's going to
replace to special things. Used to be pretty obvious save files but
they're getting a little harder to find. These save copies is what enables
RMVPTF to work. When you apply a ptf permanently it removes these backups
and you can no longer do a RMVPTF. Frees up space. If you do not apply
your ptf's permanently before you do an OS upgrade then you will have to
manually hunt down and delete these storage spaces.

Rob Berendt
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Rob - in another thread you stated:

"I think a command it may be using is UPDPTFINF. I use that quarterly,
along with DLTPTF . . . "

I read the help for UPDPTFINF. It says "This command only needs to be run
during a complete system recovery after library QGPL has been restored."
You always have a reason for what you do, so I'm curious as to why you run
this.

Also, the reason you run DLTPTF. Disk space?

Thanks.

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