"Douglas R. Probst" <doug.probst@rcn.com> wrote in message news:<buKdnbVIwKHbUg7cRVn-2w@rcn.net>...
> SP is a windows term, these are Maintenance Level Updates.
That was embarrassing. Put it down to lack of sleep.

> I called IBM, and we went through the list and removed all the committed
> files that were holding up the works.
Can you remove base level OS filesets? There are a bunch of bos.rte
filesets which are committed (bos.rte.boot, bos.rte.control ...).
After looking at those, I assummed there was no way we could remove
those and follow up with an install of a lower release of the filesets
(from ML03).

> Of course you should have made a mksysb or alt_disk clone prior to the
> update, just in case something went wrong;-)
Thing about mksysbs: we never need them when we make them. The one
time we don't ...