Re: Do TRs cover other PTF groups?

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good to know.

What are "best practices" of when to apply a TR?  In general is it the same
as everything else?...

- bleeding edge potentially hurts
- getting too far behind hurts too

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> TR's do NOT encompass other PTF groups.
>
> In fact, let's say TR 21 comes out.  And they have fancy slides and
> whatnot of all it's wonderful features listing BRMS, DB2, etc.  Somewhere
> in the fine print will be that the new functions of (let say DB2) will not
> be available until the next group ptf for that product comes out.
> The TR may be, scratch that, is most likely, a prerequisite for that
> group.
>
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> From:   Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   07/01/2016 11:03 AM
> Subject:        Do TRs cover other PTF groups?
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> tl;dr Do Technology Refreshes generally "catch you up" with PTFs from
> other
> PTF groups?
>
> When I check PTF_GROUP_CURRENCY I get the following.
>
> PTF_GROUP_CURRENCY   PTF_GROUP_ID  PTF_GROUP_TITLE
> UPDATE AVAILABLE     SF99715       720 Backup Recovery Solutions
> UPDATE AVAILABLE     SF99775       720 Hardware and Related PTFs
> UPDATE AVAILABLE     SF99716       720 Java
> UPDATE AVAILABLE     SF99717       720 Technology Refresh
>
> I was hoping I could just to a TR and it would catch up Java/BRMS/Hardware
> PTFs, but I now believe that is a poor assumption on my part.
>
> Below are URLs for PTF groups I compared to come to my conclusion that TRs
> don't necessarily encompass other PTF groups.
>
> http://bit.ly/SF99775
> http://bit.ly/SF99717
>
> Aaron Bartell
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