When installing or upgrading to a new version of ChangeMan ZMF, customers will be presented with three options: Process FULL Product Installation (formerly referred to as ‘FULL’), Install All Available PATCHES (formerly ‘FIX’), and Install Only This Current PATCH (formerly ‘DELTA’). This sometimes confuses the person running the installation. So, what are the differences?

- Process FULL Product Installation: This contains all of the software required to install a completely new ZMF environment at the specified software level or to upgrade from a prior version of ZMF.

- Install All Available PATCHES: This contains all software changed since the initial version of this release of ZMF was shipped.

- Install Only This Current PATCH: This contains all software changed in this patch level only.

So, let’s take three examples of customers installing or upgrading to the 8.2 Patch 6 release:

- Customer A is currently running ZMF 8.1.4.01 in their environment. This customer should select the first option, Process FULL Product Installation. This will include all software required to get them to the base 8.2 level, plus all software updated in patch releases up to and including 8.2 Patch 6. (Similarly, customers installing completely new  environments should select this option, too.)

- Customer B is currently running the 8.2 Patch 2 release in their environment. They should select the Install All Available PATCHES option. This will include previously applied changes that were resident in the 8.2 Patch 1 and 8.2 Patch 2 releases, but will allow all changes from 8.2 Patch 3, 4, 5, & 6 to all be applied in one step.

- Customer C is currently running 8.2 Patch 5 in their environment. They should select the Install Only This Current PATCH option. This will install the changes applied in the 8.2 Patch 6 release only, minimising the amount of software that will be updated.

Please refer to the Readme file supplied with the version of ZMF that you are installing for detailed, release-specific information on this subject. If questions remain, open a case with the ZMF Support team who will be happy to provide additional advice.