IBM seems to be rather inconsistent in use of "Relief is available in the form of:"I had an entry on IBMLink's AST and received notification today. The APAR was closed but the PTF is not available. However, the APAR item stated 'Relief is available in the form of: SEEPTF'. I must confess I don't know what SEEPTF means. Further, the APAR item had this line at the end of the document: COMMENTS: APPLY ++APAR AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK. I have no idea how to order the ++APAR to apply it.
Sometimes I see APAR or ++APAR meaning that a temporary ++APAR fix is avaiable on request from level 2. Sometimes I see PTF or SEEPTF (I assume the later means "see PTF"). Since in those cases no PTF number is indicated, I presume that IBM can see the PTF in the works and read comments in it that directs level 2 how to provide a temporary fix.
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