Permanently applying program temporary fixes (PTFs)
Temporarily applied PTFs require a considerable amount of disk storage space. Follow these procedures only for IBM® i products and temporarily applied PTFs that you have verified on your system.
When a new release is installed, the installation process overwrites the PTFs applied to the previous release. The PTFs for the previous release are no longer applied, but there might be associated objects that remain on the system and take up disk storage space. When you use Operational Assistant and choose to clean up system journals and system logs, PTF save files from previous releases are deleted from your system. However, for systems that have the IBM System Manager for i licensed program installed, the PTF save files are not deleted.
Notes:
- For more information about applying PTFs, see Applying fixes which contains information about applying immediate PTFs temporarily or permanently.
- Do not permanently apply PTFs for those licensed programs that you do not plan to upgrade.
- If you have the IBM System
Manager for i (57xx-SM1)
licensed program installed on your system, use the instructions in
the manual System Manager Use
for managing PTFs
on your system.