<bottom posting> -----Original Message----- From: Robert A. Rosenberg [mailto:hal9...@panix.com] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 11:10 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Cc: Pommier, Rex Subject: Re: Dumb SMPE question
At 22:42 +0000 on 02/06/2014, Pommier, Rex wrote about Re: Dumb SMPE question: >Mark, > >Let me ask a general question about IBM packaging. Does IBM ever >send a fixing PTF with a PRE(PE-PTF) instead of a SUP(PE-PTF)? If >the fixing PTF has a PRE of the PTF you deleted, would you not be >causing yourself problems in that the PRE PTF is now missing? > >Rex That depends on if the fix PTF contains all the elements in the PE-PTF or only some of them. If it contains all then it can SUP. If it does not it must PRE to pick up the elements that it does not contain - Note this can only occur if PE-PTF has more than one element. When it contains only one, the fix can SUP(PE-PTF) and should contain all of PE-PTF's PREs and SUPs. This was my point - that I left implied. As another contributor wrote, it is infrequent, but it does happen. If I leave the PE-PTF in my global zone, when the fixing PTF comes along, it will simply satisfy the PE-hold and apply both the PE hold and the fix for the PE. If I have REJECTed the PE, I then have to go find it, probably redownload it, and re-RECEIVE it. I come down firmly in the camp of "let SMP/E do its job". Leave the PE-PTFs there and don't worry about getting a RC=0 in your APPLY steps. Rex The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
