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From: jmr@jrowan.austin.ibm.com (Jim Rowan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: bugs and PTFs on AIX - self-help?
Message-ID: <611@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 17:39:15 GMT
References: <556@pan.UUCP>
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Reply-To: jmr@awdprime.austin.ibm.com.UUCP (Jim Rowan)
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In article <556@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
>
>There has been a significant discussion in this group recently about
>the IBM policy on bug reporting, fixes, and PTF distribution.  In one
...
>                               If the people who read this group can
>post a short note whenever they get a PTF from IBM, describing what
>it is supposed to fix (if possible), the rest of us could then call
>the our support contacts and demand that upgrade (if we wanted to).
>

Updatep -A (lppname), ala 'updatep -A opsys' will produce a one-liner for
each fix which has been applied to the machine.  This includes everything,
not just the ones that were (newly) applied in PTF 1745, for instance, but
if you do this before and after, you can get the diffs.

Admittedly, one line of description is often not enough to get a good idea
of what the fix applies to, but it's better than nothing...
-- 
Jim Rowan 	(My ravings are my own, and don't belong to my employer.)
		cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!jrowan (outside the wall)
		or jmr@jrowan.austin.ibm.com (inside the wall)