RE: Applying Cumes

Why not cut out the middle man (the PC) and have the system download the
PTF's directly via FTP? When you go to Fix Central, you get the names of the
image volumes. Plug them into a script and away you go.

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 6:50 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Applying Cumes

Aaron,

These days I always use image catalogues, which require that the images
be in an IFS folder. I use the Download Director recommended by Greg
Gallas Prior to that I used to download the images via FTP option and
then cut CD's from those. I've never used the iNav method so I can't
speak to that one, but there are instructions (somewhere), though I
think that is used to install fixes downloaded as save files from the
support line.

Anyway, it sounds like you just downloaded the images to a PC folder,
which would then require the cut to CD (using Nero, Roxio or such) and
then sitting in front of the i5 swapping the CD's. I don't know what
happened to your PC folder, but I doubt that what you downloaded is what
iNav is installing since the images (CD, save files, or catalogues) must
be on the i5.

I think that Guy is right that what iNav is installing are the fixes
that your support line downloaded as save files (QGPL, I think).

* Jerry C. Adams
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Aaron Bartell wrote:

This is a continuation from a thread started on WEB400-L (wasn't

appropriate

there anymore).



So I took Pluta's and Haases comments and headed over to Fix Central to

try

and download the latest Cume in an effort to get my system completely up

to

date. I went through the whole process of selecting Cume and then

selecting

HTTP, DB2 and Java related fixes/updates, and that led me to enter my i5's
IP/user/password screen, and that led me to a download page where a 400MB
download started and was _supposed_ to be going to a folder on my desktop.
I watched the download all the way to 98% and then got distracted (my son
wanted to watch Bob-The-Builder on the PC:-). Once I went back to that
Firefox tab later in the evening it wasn't at the download page or wasn't
there anymore (I am not sure).



So here's what I am wondering. That desktop folder which _should_ have

had

the downloads was empty upon review - should it be? Do the files
automatically get uploaded to the i5? I didn't notice a difference in

disk

usage percentage (still at 66.x%).



I started fishing around and found the "Install software fixes" task in
iSeries Navigator and clicked that. I told it to apply all fixes for all
products and all versions. It is now showing me this screen:
http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/i5_update1.png



I checked WRKACTJOB and there is a job pounding away at updates, so it
appears to be working, but how can I be sure it is applying the updates I
just downloaded? Or the other side of my brain is saying "how could it be
updating anything else?".



Should I just start the Fix Central process over from the beginning? The
download only took about 2hrs.



Thanks to anyone who can help out this newbie sys admin:-)



Aaron Bartell

http://mowyourlawn.com