Re: Applying Cumes

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From re- Pete:

No.  The Cume and the Groups are different.  As I understand it, the 
Cume is for base OS and that is it.  Way back when, ALL you got was a 
Cume and then as the OS became more sophisticated there would be 
"special" PTF's grouped together to take care of specific issues.  I was 
never a sys admin so I can't say what the evolution of the Cume vs 
groups was, but the first group I recall having to order in addition to 
a Cume was a database group.  Groups used to be a rare thing.  Now they 
are pretty standard.

Each group covers a different program area or installed licensed 
program.  Hit F11 on the wrkptfgrp screen and you can see what each 
group is for:

SF99530               CUMULATIVE PTF PACKAGE C7016530   
SF99529               GROUP HIPER                       
SF99503               DB2 UDB FOR ISERIES               
SF99314               TCP/IP GROUP PTF                  
SF99301               WEBSPHERE APP SERVER V6.0         
SF99275               WEBSPHERE APP SERVER - EXPRESS V5.1
SF99269               JAVA                              
SF99173               IBM BUSINESS SOLUTIONS            
SF99099               IBM HTTP SERVER FOR ISERIES       

You can see I am a bit behind on my PTF Cume and groups (I'll do that 
over Christmas.  I spent Thanksgiving building a new WinTel server - 
some holiday....)  Anyhoo, the Cume will address base OS fixes and 
enhancements.  Best to get it and have all you bases covered.

I think when you finish this round you should order the "Kiss me, I'm a 
Sys Admin" T-shirt!  Fun, ain't it?

Pete (Helgren)


Aaron Bartell wrote:
> Ah ha!  I went back into FixCentral and realized why I didn't select the
> cume one.  I thought that was one of those dropdown summary section
> groupings type deals.  I have now just ordered it.  Will this help
> considering I updated all the others manually outside of the cume?  My
> understanding of the cume is that it would cover all the group PTF's I just
> loaded - is that correct?
>
> Thanks Pete,
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:33 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Applying Cumes
>
> Aaron,
>
> 	Don't un-cork the champagne just yet.  Your cumulative package is
> over 1 year old.  How come you are so far back.  Did you just get the Group
> PTFs, and not the Cumulative package. That is SF99530.
>
> Pete
>
>
>