However, assume you have installed two PTFs that affect
the same element but that do not define any relationship
to each other. If you select one of the PTFs and specify
the GROUP operand, SMP/E does not try to restore the
other PTF. You have to specify both PTFs on the SELECT
operand.
This shouldn't happen, should it?
It is not typical, but it can happen, especially for Update elements
(MACUPD / SRCUPD) or if BYPASS(ID) was specified during APPLY.
This section makes several mentions of PREs, but not of REQs.
Does GROUP do anything with REQs? In particular:
3. If you use GROUP along with SELECT, make sure to
specify the lowest level of service you want restored.
For example, if you want to restore PTF1 and PTF2, and
PTF1 is a prerequisite for PTF2, specify PTF1 on the
SELECT operand.
REQ and PRE play the same here for GROUP processing. Perhaps it would
be more correct if the book used the term "requisite" instead of
"prerequisite" to cover all requisite types: PRE, REQ, IFREQ.
Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development
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