Meganen, I just applied maintenance to take us from z/OS 1.8 at RSU0704 to RSU0710 + HIPER. It came to just about 900 PTFs. I wonder if you received all the PUT maintenance available instead of just the recommend RSU levels.
John Confidentiality notice: The information included in this e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution or similar action is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies of the original message immediately. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meganen Naidoo - BCX - RO JHB Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: z/OS PTFs Hi All, We are currently running z/OS 1.7 service level 0705 on 11 production Lpars for different clients - not in a sysplex. We just received the latest recommended and critical ptfs from Shop zSeries - 0710. The PTF's are a staggering 7524 in total. Our current fix strategy is to just smp receive all the PTF's and use the 'fix on fail' approach if we require a fix. We have a good SMPE rollout strategy - SMP dddefs point to copied system volumes and we IPL of the 'SMP applied' set....etc. Our reason for not applying all the fixes is that we run many different non-IBM 3rd party products on the different lpars and are concerned that the fixes may cause problems. We would like to know what strategy's other companies use to install these system fixes. How often do you receive/apply system fixes...etc Kind Regards, Meganen Naidoo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
