Hi Chad,
In reply to your question ...

> I have eagerly awaited MPE/iX 5.5 to get Patch/iX and Stage/iX to help
> me get some sleep on weekends. We are finally upgrading our R/D machine
> to 5.5 and one of our other systems managers has discovered that we
> cannot use it because we also use Netbase (Arrrrrrrrgh!)
>
> Somebody please tell me (truthfully) that this is incorrect.

I also have netbase installed on a couple of my systems  and I have
good news andbad news. The good news is that as long as all the
patchs qualify for staging, patchix seems to work just fine, in fact
I commited a patch two days ago and loaded and staged another. The
bad news is that if any patch dosnt qualify for staging and you have
to create an SLT, patchiX will bomb unless you de-install netbase
first, but since you would have to do that anyway who cares?.
The only gotcha I have experienced is with netbase udc's replacing
system udc's like build and purge when we run patch iX, really ticks
off the programmers when they can't compile and test in production
like (Jim says) they are suppose to.
John "Danger" Skelton