All RSU's are not created equal. The quarterly ones (i.e. 2303 2306 2309 2312), are tested by IBM differently and tend to be "easier" to install.
There is NEVER a good reason to skip maintenance for a long period of time. Only doing maintenance when you install a new copy of the OS is a pretty silly idea. You are placing yourself at the vagaries of IBM builds and not any better off than updating with the RSU's. It sounds like someone is probably just being very lazy. I work with literally over 300 sites, and I hear a lot of odd thinking on how "everybody" does maintenance and installations, and for the most part it's a lot like operating on yourself or making investing decisions because of something you saw on tictoc or instagram. :) Maintenance isn't hard to put on, you just have to have a plan and follow it. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
