SP's now affect applications?!

[JRev]

SP\'s now affect applications?!

Jdelist,

Just had a meeting with our newly (re)formed Tri-state users group last week. One thing I had heard during this meeting was that starting with SP18, JDE service packs are now updating applications.. Not to knock on JDE, but if it's true they're breaking their own rules.

I don't want to scare everybody, it hasn't been confirmed, but that's what a few of us got out of that meeting.

Anybody heard the same or otherwise? Just curious...

Justin Revoredo
Amersham Biosciences
Piscataway, NJ
OW B7332 Coexistence SP11.1
AS/400 Oracle
Citrix/Fat

 

[cdawes8]

RE: SP\'s now affect applications?!

SP's affecting applications? This has been happening from day one - although
not directly. For example look back to SP13, if you were on B733.2 or B733.1
and running payroll then you were in trouble. You had to accept a bunch of
ESU's just to get the system running again. Actually I think this is the
whole reason for multiple foundations, simply because SP's have and always
will affect applications, whether we like it or not. JDE admitting it is
just a step in the right direction.

Now are you actually talking about SP's starting to dump objects into actual
path codes besiders PLANNER? ie. I install an SP and it updates P0911 or
B070005?

Colin

B733.2/SP17.1_F1
Intel/NT/Oracle 8.1.7

 

[JRev]

Re: RE: SP\'s now affect applications?!

Colin,

I'm not positive on that, we heard it from a consulting team, but that's what it sounded like to us. Taking service packs always seems to indirectly update apps, but the way they made it sound, SP18 was directly updating apps. Sorry that I don't have any more details, I was hoping that someone out there could explain more..

Justin Revoredo
Amersham Biosciences
Piscataway, NJ
OW B7332 Coexistence SP11.1
AS/400 Oracle
Citrix/Fat

 

[gerd_renz3]

RE: SP\'s now affect applications?!

I think there are two issues here.

The original post asked if service packs are UPDATING applications now!?!
That would be really bad. I think it is impossible. Service packs substitute
the system directory and all it executable files. The process of applying a
SP does not allow for updating applications.

However, service packs MAY AFFECT (and many times they do) applications,
which is an unwanted side affect. This is why we install multiple
foundations to test a SP before putting it in production.

So I would say if someone from JDE said that SP's update applications, that
that is an incorrect statement. If it was