Re: UPDPTF / DLTPTF

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 3:30 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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