On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:07:24 -0600, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:


>>
>>If you don't want to install all the maintenance (use SMP/E 3.5 FIXCAT,
>>or PSP tool to identify),  then you could go over all the PTFs in the PSP
>>buckets one at a time and take your best guess as to what you think
>>the impact might be if you didn't have the PTF applied knowing that
>>you are running under VM and won't be using HIPERDISPATCH, creating
>>new IODFs (well... not creating one that needs to be hardware activated),
>>zHPF, InfiniBand Coupling, etc.
>
>Hum, guess I need to install SMP/E 3.5 first.
>

In case I wasn't clear, I meant to use IBMLINK and get the human readable
PSP buckets and look at them.    You only need IEBIBALL for that.  :-)

And while SMP/E 3.5 is nice and makes life easier, the PSP tool still works
fine with lower levels of SMP/E.   

Regards,

Mark
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