YMMV
In my 25 years career I have seen a lot of PTFs, web deliverables, but
only one APAR fix.
AFAIR I have read in some SMP/E course, the APAR fixes are not widely
available and cannot be downloaded from ShopzSeries. APAR fixes are
available directly to the customer who claimed the error in the
software. And this is my case.
However in some other cases we submitted PMR and APAR was created, but
we got information about PTF available in (near) future, no mention
about APAR fix.
Of course it is only my humble experience, others can have different one.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 05.11.2023 o 05:10, Bruce Hewson pisze:
Hello Jon,
As a customer I currently have 638 ++APARs installed across my product base. We
regularly get test fixes, as in ++APAR, provided by vendors.
I wouldn't really call them RARE.
On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 13:31:17 -0500, Jon Perryman<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 07:19:49 -0500, Bruce Hewson<[email protected]>
wrote:
APARs for me are OAxxxxx or PHxxxxx - these are the entries describing a
problem, and may be associates as Error Holds to existing PTFs.
The broader point that needs to be addressed is the purpose of an APAR. Since
++APAR are rarely seen by vendor staff and customers, there must be a much
bigger use for vendors otherwise why do they bother with describe the problem
in the APAR.
Regards
Bruce
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