Re: Turn Off Electronic Service Agent ?

use the  Change Service Agent Attr (CHGSRVAGTA) command

or GO SERVICE option 1

look for :
Auto PTF:
  Enable . . . . .
  Schedule day . .
  Download PTFs  .

Set as desired....


_____________________________
Bryan Dietz
Aktion Associates


midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/19/2005 12:17:29 PM:

> OS/400 getting more and more like Windows (and I don't mean that as
> a compliment).
>
> I was unpleasantly surprised today to find one of our V5R3 systems
> with a message CPIEF1D on QSYSOPR stating that it had automatically
> downloaded PTF SI18318 and it wanted me to apply it.
>
> Reading the cover letter, it looked harmless enough, just some stuff
> for Management Central. When I did LODPTF from *SERVICE, I got about
> a dozen PTFs for 5722SS1, and a bunch of sup'd PTFs were applied
> permanently. i was not expecting all that. Then I decided there may
> be coreqs for other products and LIC, so I went back and used GO PTF
> Opt 8 from *SERVICE. Sure enough, there were like 20 PTFs.
>
> A search of QHST revealed that it has been downloading PTFs for some
> time. We keep 5 weeks of QSHT and there were 9 CPIEF1D messages in that
time.
>
> The last thing I need is OS/400 downloading PTFs automatically. I
> really wouldn't mind it phoning home about hardware failures, but
> getting unexpected PTFs is not acceptable.
>
> In my search for a way to turn this unwelcome helper off, I finally
> located it in Mgmt Central/Extreme Support/Agents. However, I could
> find no way to turn it off, only to display that it is enabled.
>
> After more searching, including the slower-and-worse-than-ever V5R3
> Info Center, I located a doc that lead me to GO SERVICE, where I was
> very pleased to find an attribute to disable Service Agent.
> Unfortunately, after setting it to ENABLE(*NO), iSeries Navigator
> still shows that it is enabled.
>
> Anybody know how to turn this (*&^#$! thing off? I see neither a
> LICPGM or any option that I can uninstall. Is this part of 5722-PT1,by
chance?
>
> Thanks,
> -Marty