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"Not a bad habit to get into. Many of the technology refreshes in 7.1 require that all MF* ptf's be permanently applied before installing. I think IBM is trying to address this by doing many of these steps for you. You may just notice a longer IPL time while IBM does this for you under the covers. Two caveats. One, if you have any test ptf's you do not want to permanently apply those. My IPL's are scheduled for once a quarter. About a week before then I have a calendar entry of things to do over and above my..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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