Re: does anybody reads the cover letters before applying them?

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Not reading the cover letters before applying PTFs is like -- "Close 
your eyes and STEP ON THE GAS!" :-o

> Pascal Bellerose wrote:
> We had some problems with cumm 8183 that contained a series of PTF that
> fixes format level identifiers for files having TIME or DATE fields.
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> This caused a lot of troubles because we create new databases each year
> and all the databases use the same programs.  So once the program is
> compiled all the databases must have the same format level id or we get
> a format level check error (CPF4131)
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> I suggested that we should read all PTF cover letters and make sure no
> problems would be encountered again.
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> But It seems like a long shot and I'm not sure it could be done in time
> to stay up to date with latest cumms.
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> First, I did not find a way to list the PTF that were added in the last
> cumm.  Because it is a cumulative update, the list IBM supplies is the
> complete list of ptfs.  Many were applied a long time ago.
>  
> So I ask, does anybody reads the cover letters? if so how do you manage
> this?
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> Thanks!
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> Pascal Bellerose
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