Hi Brian,
One of my customers decided (many years ago) to upgrade software/apply
maintenance once a year (on each of their 4 complexes).
There are not enough weekends in the year to do this more frequently
(due to other groups doing upgrades and "blocked out" weekends).
Regards,
David
On 2023-07-18 02:16, Brian Westerman wrote:
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
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