On Fri, 18 May 2012 00:52:38 -0700, Walter Marguccio wrote: >this is my understanding of the RSUmmyy. > >My memory could be rusty on this, but many moons ago customers were tired of >peeking through >too many PTFs delivered in SMCREC, SMCCOR, PUTmmyy "recipients", and >complained to IBM. >As a result, RSUmmyy was developed in order to let customer select "as few >PTFs as possible, >but as many PTFs as needed".
What I remember is that RSU was changed so that customers would be able to apply all of the latest PTFs (FSVO "Latest") with the understanding that they were all tested as a group. Because of the testing that was done at IBM, there is a better chance of fixing problems without introducing new ones. In practice, many customers choose to upgrade to an RSU level than the most current after receiving the latest HOLDDATA, thus providing an additional measure of safety. For information, see the CST website. The mission statement is at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/support/servicetest/mission.html -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
