Re: PTF's affecting system operation?

[pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hey, there's someone here in the Chicago area who's still on V3R7 because 
his management hasn't wanted to give him an occasional weekend to do 
upgrades. They take the position that if the system's running OK, don't 
mess with it.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978  Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx





Reeve <rfritchman@xxxxxxxxx>
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A customer tells me they haven't applied PTF's to their development
V5R2 S20 (sigh) in a year because they "don't want to affect the
testing environment".

I go back to the System/38 pre-announcement meetings as an IBM'er and
have never heard this prattle before.  We expect such behavior with
Windows (actually, it doesn't even take a service pack, it just takes
another keystroke) but not with OS/400.  And since it's my application
in the testing environment, I'm reasonably (as in as close to 100% as
possible) sure there's nothing application-dependent going on.

Is this a CYA crock or is there merit in the customer's statement?

Thanks,
Reeve
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