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From: geoff@ugc.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Update 3005
Message-ID: <1991May10.055847.3456@ugc.uucp>
Date: 10 May 91 05:58:47 GMT
References: <2826DF67.4178@tct.com> <28447@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991May8.153901.21973@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: UGC Consulting Ltd., Edmonton Alberta
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In article <1991May8.153901.21973@bellcore.bellcore.com> jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin) writes:
>
>   I hate to differ, but.......Being involved in a large scale development
>shop with 100's of users, it would be next to impossible to manage 100's of 
>patches, each one being different (Yeah...I know...I had asked IBM for single
>fixes before...but I had a different reason in mind). The complaint that I
>have is that IBM does not publish information on non-mandatory upgrades. Many of
>the bugs we were looking at were fixed in the 2004 release (which no one knows >about until someone calls defect support. The I end up trying to figure out 
>which problems were fixed in that release, and which one I still need to 
>report and get single fixes for.......
>

	Sounds like my conversation with IBM today. 

1) Why can't they provide a list of what is fixed by this update only.
   I don't need a 50 page listing of problem numbers and short description
   over the life of AIX 3.1 I do need to know if the update is worth applying
   immediately.

2) Why can't they auto ship all of these updates to their customers. I find
   it frustrating to have a machine go down flashing 888 to be told that it 
   is possibly an old problem that has already been fixed I just need to get
   the latest update.

3) Why aren't these update tapes sent out as loadable tape format ???


Geoff Coleman
UGC Consulting Ltd.
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