Re: Death to Fix Central!

I would think LUG Companies would be very upset about this change.   I know if I were still in LUG, I would be.

On 12/11/2025 4:17 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

Some draconian changes have been made at Fix Central. Apparently if you
have an LPAR at 7.5 and an LPAR at 7.6 and you try to order cume/group/etc
downloads for both within 30 days you are considered quite the nefarious
individual. You cannot download more than once within that period.
If you do a SNDPTFORD SF98750 on one lpar to test connection after applying
PTFs it will work that once. If you try it on another LPAR on the same S/N
it will fail. If you try the original LPAR again it will fail. Again,
because you are obviously a cheater.
You will have to emailfixexp@xxxxxxxxxx to explain why you, as a
disreputable individual, feel you are worthy of downloading more than
once. They will email you a form to fill out. I have been in contact with
one individual who emails "on behalf of FC Exceptions Handling...". So, if
an IBMer sees this and cannot believe this I can give them more details.
If you've downloaded the cume/groups/etc and then get notified that a new
hiper and security group just came out and you try to download that too,
again you are unworthy of ordering them on a timely basis, you cheater you.
This vexes me to no end.