Rebuilding PTF indexes -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Rebuilding PTF indexes
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 01 14:46:32 CDT
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The software that you receive from IBM when ordering a release is
periodically updated.  What happens is that IBM loads the software on
a central system, applies PTFs, REsaves that software, and then uses
that resave for future distributions of the software.  PTF markers such
as RE98316 indicates that your software represents a resave that
was performed on the 316th day of 1998.  The entry RE98316 does not
represent a PTF in terms of a specific fix, rather it represents a
level of the software originally received.

Bruce

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>Nobody's ever been able to tell me what the RE entries are...
>

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