Re: Loading PTF's from SAVF

On 04-May-2016 07:40 -0500, Don Brown wrote:

I recently loaded 5733OPS and ordered the PTF group using SNDPTFORD.

The PTF's downloaded successfully and I manually loaded each from
the SAVF.

This seems really inefficient but I could find no way to do anything
that would auto load either a list of save files or even better auto
find and load.

Although a copy of each PTF exists in\as a PTF Save File, the Send PTF Order [presumably had] _registered_ each /into *SERVICE/. As such, instead of Load PTF (LODPTF) from the Device (DEV) of type save file, just Load PTFs from the DEVICE(*SERVICE). However IIRC the Install PTF (INSPTF) will effect the "auto load" and apply of those PTFs registered to *SERVICE; i.e. DEV(*SERVICE), just as with LODPTF.

Apart from writing something to do this does anyone have a better way
of doing this?

In the lab long ago I had some tooling that retrieved only the save files [we could not connect /externally/ using SNDPTFORD] so I could not do the load from service; my LODPTF had to be done from the DEV(*SAVF). Then I just used PDM user-defined options for effecting the LODPTF action; making the requests [repeated with F13] from a list, per having issued WRKOBJPDM QGPL Q* *FILE OBJATR('SAVF')

Also if I delete a PTF save file before it is loaded the cover
letter stills appears in the list of PTF's. How do I remove the cover
letter from the list?

<<SNIP>>

IIRC, do not use Delete File (DLTF) to delete the save file, use the Delete PTF (DLTPTF) command.