From: "Robert Comer" 

They were cumulative...

IBM did tend to split fixpacks up into subsystem types for some of the
subsystems, but that's the only difference.

- Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:42feb605{at}w3.nls.net... They weren't cumulative, and IBM thought that
was the way to go because it gave people the option to not install a
fixpack if it created an incompatibility with some application. MS on the
other hand did things right and made service packs cumulative which forced
app vendors to fix their stupid apps when something broke. Having been thru
that before is one of the reasons I keep promoting the idea of current
rollups so you have one service pack and one rollup to get current. Simpler
is always better and leave the problems of broken apps to the app vendors.

Even the OS/2ers said they liked the NT way of doing cumulative service packs better.

Geo.
  "Rich"  wrote in message news:42feaebf{at}w3.nls.net...
     I didn't realize IBM's fix packs were not cumulative like Windows.
Maybe my memory is failing but I thought I had applied them that way.

  Rich

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