Re: Applying Cumes

Aaron,

Director can download the .BIN files directly to your i5.
Try to do a

WRKLNK '/qibm/userdata/service/FixCentral'

to check if your files are there.

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez

--- midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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message: 4
date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 06:08:35 -0600
from: "Aaron Bartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Applying Cumes

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

Luis Rodriguez

IBM Certified Systems Expert
eServer i5 iSeries Technical Solutions


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