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Your last paragraph speaks volumes as to why I am not a big fan of permanently applying ptf's. Been there, done that. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: domino400-bounces+rob=dekko.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx 04/21/2005 08:02 AM Please respond to Lotus Domino on the iSeries / AS400 <domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To Lotus Domino on the iSeries / AS400 <domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Re: Re: perm apply ptf's Ahh, defective PTFs.... When I was a newbie I crashed our failover iSeries applying some PTFs. This was back in December of 2000 when I had been fresh out of college in May and working with the AS/400s. We were pretty religious about scouring through the defective PTF lists back then. I had spreadsheets setup, etc.... Pretty cool little system. Anyway, about a week prior we loaded the PTFs on our production box (why in the world my bosses did that instead of loading on failover first I still don't know!). We had some issues and found that one of the PTFs on that latest CUME was bad. So, my boss told me to make sure I excluded it when doing the failover PTFs. I still swear to this day that I double-checked to make sure it wasn't loaded, but when I was bringing the box back up - bam! Couldn't even get to the A side to remove it! Had to slip the LIC and reinstall completely!!! Fun experience for me...lol Chris Whisonant Comporium Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2 IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5 803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/ domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/21/2005 08:31:31 AM: > PTFs have been like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver > over the last year or so. > > We have been burned many, many times. > > Anything Domino related we install TEMP, and I usually test the backout if > it is significant enough. > > The usual OS/400, Java, Brms etc are applied on a 4 week rotation on our > systems are applied as PERM. > > We are usually a month behind the bleeding edge in PTFs. > > You want to lose sleep at night? > > Read up on defective PTFs................ It amazes me that DB2 on > iSeries even works. > > http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/sline003. > NSF/3a8f58452f9800bc862562900059e09e/c6ab0c609a1d2f3e86256c0f00586539? > OpenDocument > > Sean _______________________________________________ This is the Lotus Domino on the iSeries / AS400 (Domino400) mailing list To post a message email: Domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/domino400 or email: Domino400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/domino400.
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