Re: Installing a new partition - minimum config for FTP and Image Catalog

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Tempting, really tempting.  Is 7x17GB big enough to hold all the LPP's we 
may be using, and, when we run the GO LICPGM,40 the image catalog media we 
may be creating?

Do you wipe this clean with each new release to clean it up?  I am 
thinking that doing so would get rid of stuff like QPFRDTA vs QMPGDATA, 
old ptf save files that, even though you diligently applied them 
permanently, still managed to leave a few.  And other errata.  And, the 
keys would only be good for lpars on the same box.  Reentering keys isn't 
a show stopper though.

Do you only use this for OS upgrades?  Or do you use it for PTF's also? 
For example, I order the cume and all groups (whether installed or not), 
then I also get all "recommended" ptfs.  I also run iNav to compare to see 
if I've missed any that I may have put on a single lpar only.  I end up 
with a LOT of image catalog entries.  And I am sure that a lot are 
duplicates.  Sure, groups aren't supposed to have any ptf's that are on 
the cume.  But I still wonder.  For example, the latest SP for IBM i 
Access for Windows is probably on a cume (may be out of date), a group (or 
2 or 3), and probably a "recommended" also.


Rob Berendt