Skip Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > While Ed and I differ on the need for CHECK and on the practice of > injecting maintenance directly into the body of a running system, we agree > on the pointlessness of chasing down sysmod error chains.
It's abiut 20 years since I last did this. IIRC there's some operand one can code on an APPLY which will pull in all the missing prereq/coreq PTFs when you specify just the few you know you need. Even if we used that, we did so only on the APPLY CHECK to find out what total set of PTFs were required for the intended stuff to APPLY. And before actually running the APPLY someone would read the cover letters for all the extra PTFs that were going to be applied that weren't the ones we explicitly wanted to apply. Someone had to be aware of areas of the system whose behaviours might be about to change. Are you saying you wouldn't bother doing that? We only applied fixes directly to test systems which would be IPLed multiple times before those systems were cloned into first development and then finally production systems. -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
