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Program Temporary Fixes

A Program Temporary Fix (PTF) is an official replacement module or modules that fixes one or several problems. A PTF is usually an accumulation of APARs.

• PTFs are installed as PTF SYSMODs, which you must accept prior to installing subsequent maintenance.
• PTFs are always delivered on a periodic maintenance tape.
• PTFs are named AAxxxxx to AAxxxxx, where AA is the alphabetic characters and xxxxx is a numeric sequence.