I agree with Phil - particularly with regards to his comments about how difficult (impossible) it would be for IBM to prevent this sort of problem from happening in the first place.
My concern is *not* with preventing the situation from happening. Rather, my concern is with what happens AFTER the situation occurs in the field. I would prefer that IBM stand "above the fray" and notify customers via an electronic/automatic means that a problem has been identified. My assertion is that acting in this fashion would benefit both customers as well as IBM, in terms of maintaining the good reputation of the entire mainframe platform. Again, (my opinion) I do not expect IBM to test every possible configuration - even of IBM's own hardware. What I want is for IBM to automatically attempt to prevent known problems from being *rediscovered* by more customers. AI information in a PTF simply fails to do this. Brian On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:53:17 +0100, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RESEARCH.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote: >The "heads up" of course is valuable - it's what this list is about. > >>> Just wanted to pass on a heads up on some APARs that require >>> HDS microcode on DASD. And that microcode will not be >>> available until the 2nd week in January. > >> Was there a HOLD(ACTION) [or it might need to be >> HOLD(DEPENDENT?) - I forget] against these APARs (or the >> Fix PTFs)? If not, a BIG "PACKAGING PROBLEM" report >> should be filed with IBM since this dependency should have >> been mentioned so as to suppress accidental installation as >> occurred to you ... > >Hmmm. > (snip) > >I'm sorry - but as a life-long (almost) PCMer - I have to say this is part of the deal. If >you have non-IBM (or even IBM, come to that) devices in your configuration then change control >becomes YOUR responsibility. > >-- > Phil Payne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
