We did save our ptfs that were received during this time  (41 ptfs) of which 9 
were applied. This maintenance was on multiple systems spread over 3 sysplexs. 
That made doing reapply's not a very desirable idea. We rejected the 41 ptfs 
and received them again. Then we used GIMCPTS to expand both the "good" and 
"bad" copy of the 9 ptfs and compared them.
There were no differences in the 9 ptfs that we have applied.  

Doug



On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:33:02 +0000, kekronbekron <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>> I didnt think to save off the corrupted PTF's out of SMPPTS before I nuked 
>> them. would have been interesting to see the differences.
>
>The boys Chad R (RSM/BMC) and Phil (mainframed) might be doing this... for 
>their next security talk.
>
>- KB
>
>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:51 PM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) 
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Anyone else having trouble downloading this zip file?
>>
>> ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/alert/PTFList.zip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of 
>> Dave Jousma
>>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:28 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders
>>
>> I had 5 PTF's that fell into that receive window. at least there were 3 were 
>> not applied, so easy. The other two were in my base GDPS code. One of those 
>> I was able to apply - redo, the other was in separate FMID for GDPS and I 
>> had no choice but to delete the entire FMID and re-install it. That FMID was 
>> for the GUI - RESTful API interface, which is all ZFS based for the most 
>> part. Apply REDO didnt want to work there.
>>
>> So yea, wasted most of yesterday remediating this. Good timing though, in a 
>> maintenance cycle, and got this just prior to our first Production rolls...
>>
>> I didnt think to save off the corrupted PTF's out of SMPPTS before I nuked 
>> them. would have been interesting to see the differences.
>>
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