Re: Y2K Group PTF Potential Problem

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just received the CUM package for V3R7M0 about 4
days ago on 2 CDs.  The CUM package for V3R7M0 is
not this way.

I, also, had only had to put in the first CD.  Just now I tested
by putting in the second CD and GO PTF and 8 Install Package,
and a message on QSYSOPR told me to stick in the first CD.

So the last CUM for V3R7M0 is a "normal" PTF type.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Yep, I was told this by support when I talked with them Monday. They 
>SPECIFICALLY
> mentioned this (I was getting a cum tape, hiper and the Y2K stuff for V4R1...)
> and I started to ask WHY they did that with this one but got sidetracked. I do
> seem to remember someone else posting that to Midrange-L earlier this month 
>or I
> got an alert from SOMEWHERE else.
>
> Chuck
>
> franz99@attglobal.net wrote:
>
> > IBM has been updating the Group PTF for Y2K recently, and recently
> > the shipment has been 2 cd's. Weeks ago I loaded the ptfs on 10 AS/400s.
> >
> > Each machine, some at V3R7, some V4R2 only asked for the 1st cd. Assumed
> >
> > no ptfs on the 2nd cd related to my machines. Today I checked the IBM
> > site for
> > new changes, and found the following text in the PSP "Both media volumes
> > included
> > in this order should be treated as separate single PTF orders. There is
> > not a prompt
> > to load the second volume." I must have missed that in the PSP several
> > weeks ago
> > (I did lose my glasses a while ago), or it just wasn't there.
> > Today I updated several machines with the 2nd cd, and indeed, more ptfs
> > were loaded.
> > I would recommend that anyone who has not loaded the Y2K Group PTFs
> > recently
> > do so. There seems to be a number of recent additions. The label on the
> > 2nd cd,
> > labelled "2 of 2" will not automatically load after the 1st cd (like
> > every other ptf
> > process I have ever seen from IBM). See the site AS400service.ibm.com
> > for
> > Info Apars & PSP. The Group PTF SF99200 is for V3R7, V4R1,2,3,4. SF99201
> > is
> > for V3R2.
> > Jim Franz
> > Systematic Control, Inc
> > jfranz@sysctl.com
> >
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