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'''Program temporary fix''' or '''Product temporary fix''' ('''PTF'''), depending on date, is the standard [[IBM]] terminology for a single [[Patch (computing)|bug fix]], or group of fixes, distributed in a form ready to install for customers. Customers sometime explain the acronym in a tongue-in-cheek manner as ''permanent temporary fix'' or more practically ''probably this fixes'', because they have the option to make the PTF a permanent part of the operating system if the patch fixes the problem.
A PTF follows an APAR, and where an "APAR fix" was issued, the PTF "is a tested APAR."<ref name=Gabe/>
==PTF usage==
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* a permanent correction called a [[Program temporary fix|PTF]].
The focus of the "APAR fix" is "to rectify the problem as soon as possible"<ref name=Mehdi>{{cite web
|title=Diff between PTF,APAR,INTERMFIX |author=Mehdi Salebi
|url=http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/ibm-aix-l/diff-between-ptfaparintermfix-4353121
|date=August 7, 2011}}</ref> whereas the PTF "is a tested APAR... The PTF 'closes' the APAR. " Prior to that, an APAR is "a problem with an IBM program that is formally tracked until a solution is provided.”<ref name=Gabe>{{cite web
|website=destinationz.org (MSP TechMedia) |author=Gabe Goldberg |date=June 12, 2013
|title=IBM’s APAR process provides the tools for dealing with software issues
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== See also ==
* [[SMP/E]]
== References ==
{{reflist}}
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