APARs, fixes, and PTFs

An APAR is an "authorized program analysis report". An APAR is your means of informing the appropriate change team of a problem you have found with an IBM® program.

When the change team solves the problem, they produce a fix enabling you to get your system running properly again. Finally, a PTF is produced to replace the module in error, and the APAR is closed.

Related Concepts
The APAR process

Related Tasks
Collecting the documentation for the APAR
Sending the documentation to the change team
Applying the fix
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