RE: Installing Websphere Portal -- IPL Required?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Walden H. Leverich
> 
> I guess I've got two issues w/this. First is that the install requires
> an IPL at all -- but ok, I'll accept that.

<laughing>  Yeah, installing an entire application might indeed require
an IPL.  In fact, applying group PTFs is generally a good time to do an
IPL.  Typically you apply group PTFs two to four times a year, so four
IPLs a year is not a bad deal, especially since you can indeed schedule
the downtime.


> The second is that IBM can't
> provide the PTFs ahead of time so we can install them on an already
> scheduled IPL.

I don't understand this.  I just went to Fix Central and downloaded
group PTFs for two products which I have not yet installed (WAS Express
5.1 and WAS 6.0).  Portal is on the list; I can't see why you can't do
the same.

Joe