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=== Program temporary fix ===
{{Main|Program temporary fix}}
Program temporary fix or Product temporary fix (PTF), depending on date, is the standard [[IBM]] terminology for a single bug fix, or group of fixes, distributed in a form ready to install for customers. A PTF was sometimes referred to as a “ZAP”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zos.zdatamgmt/zsysprogc_utilities_SPZAP.htm|title=SPZAP (a.k.a. Superzap): Dynamically update programs or data|website=IBM Knowledge Center|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-23|archive-date=2020-05-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524134045/https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zos.zdatamgmt/zsysprogc_utilities_SPZAP.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
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.