SYS21 - Re: SYS21 - Re: JBA ML - Setting up a new module

[Jeff_Klipa/Harvard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ahhhh, and there's the rub...!!!  That's precisely the difference between
setting up a "TST" ENVIRONMENT and setting up a completely different WORLD...
A separate WORLD contains cloned/renamed versions of EVERY library including the
IPG libaraies not just the OSL libraries...!!!

This is why when people say you should, "...Pre-apply your PTFs in a 'TST'
environment...", I cringe, because any PTF that loads anything into the IPG
libraries falls outside the scope of the "TST" ENVIRONMENT and truly impacts
your LIVE production environment...  These PTFs are difficult, if not
impossible, to uninstall...!!!

The only really safe way to test PTF's is to create a separate WORLD to test
in...

(Mind you that after PTF P#MMV30014 you can no longer run Machine Manager in a
separate world.  Not that you'd really need to...)

Best of luck...







aappleby@geckojewellery.com on 02/18/2002 03:23:07 AM

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Jeff

Thanks for the warning! I have noticed this in the past, but so far, so
good. I did keep a backup though. Unfortunately, even though we have a
completely separate test set of libraries, there is only one Application
Manager to control them. I have tried to segregate the new modules as much
as possible from the live, so we'll just have to see.

Angus