RE: Serious service issue when ordering ptf media.

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

We take turns doing our upgrades, ptf's, etc.  So I have to write our 
instructions so that least 'system' oriented iSeries developer in our shop 
can complete them.  Using the CD's it's amazing how many times they answer 
the QSYSOPR message to mount the next CD, after they've loaded the next 
CD, but before the CD light is done flashing and it's ready.  Or sometimes 
even if you wait the darn thing just hasn't accepted the fact that you've 
loaded a new CD in.
The image catalog's remove that error.  Or at least, put it up to a more 
'system' oriented guy when he loads the CD's into the image catalog to 
prep the iSeries for the scheduled downtime.
I've been known to leave the state during the scheduled downtimes.  Got to 
really test those instructions...  (And the fish were biting.  You just 
have to set your priorities.)


Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





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Image catalogs rule - plain and simple.  They are amazing - try an OS
upgrade off one - WOW!  Just set it and forget it. 

jch

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:17 AM
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Awesome Rob - I had been wondering about image catalogs. Was quizzing our
IBM CE's on this when they were in here setting up LPAR on the new 810 
this
week :-)

Chuck


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Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:47 PM
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Subject: RE: Serious service issue when ordering ptf media.

I won't get them in time.  According to the UPS tracking I won't get them 
until Monday.  In fact the UPS tracking said they held the ptf's for one 
whole business day (from about midnight until about 6:30PPPPM) waiting on 
billing information.  I'm sure that can be one point for IBM and UPS to 
get into a pi$$ing contest over.  Fortunately I had another copy that came 

in on Airborne for another system.  I used them on the rest of the systems 

by doing this:
md '/fixes'
CRTDEVOPT DEV(OPTVRT01) RSRCNAME(*VRT) ONLINE(*YES) TEXT('Virtual optical 
drive for image catalog')
VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTVRT01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)
CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) DIR('/fixes') TEXT('PTF image catalog')
ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) FROMDEV(OPT01) (repeat for each CD) 
WRKIMGCLGE
PTFCATALOG

Then when I am ready to load them, (after the saves) I'll just do: 
WRKCFGSTS
*DEV OPTVRT01 Vary it on LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) DEV(OPTVRT01)
VFYIMGCLG IMGCLG(PTFCATALOG) TYPE(*PTF) SORT(*YES) GO PTF 8. Install 
program
temporary fix package
Device  . . . . . . . . .   OPTVRT01
Automatic IPL . . . . . .   N

Tested this on one system and it's pretty slick.

Granted, I could have used the CD's on each machine instead of the image 
catalogs.  However I wanted to play with the image catalogs more so that 
in the future I will FTP the PTF's down and screw relying on IBM and UPS 
to get them here in time.

Rob Berendt


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