In <[email protected]>, on
08/17/2012
at 07:07 PM, Scott Fagen <[email protected]> said:
>APAR = Authorized (Authorised for the rest of the world)
My spell checker accepts authorized bu tot authorised.
>PMR is a Problem Management Request
Are you sure it wasn't "Record"?
>ETR is Electronic Technical Response
Are you sure it wasn't "Report"?
>Not all APARs cause fixes to be coded.
Do you consider a documentation update to be a fix? The ETR mechanism
can be used to report problems with documentation.
>IBM measures and attempts to maximize the number of problems closed
>without fixes (FIN,
FIN implies an intent to issue a fix. I've even suggested FIN when I
dealt that a the fix needed more testing than it would get if issued
as a PTF.
>It is not entirely a "work avoidance" initiative.
But often is.
>The engineer may iterate over various versions of the fix by
>changing the name (AA12345, AB12345, AC12345...) or updating the
>rework date.
That's fairly common when the error exists in multiple releases.
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