Re: New partition install from NFS.

They 'kinda' fixed this now. You can do the Prepare for upgrade step that loads the agreements from this media. That much has always worked. As Jim says though there is no way to 'pre-approve' the list of LPPs as that file isn't there and IBM say "Nope, not gonna." Not sure why, as it seems a SMOP. BUT what they have done now is to let you do a normal mode IPL from this media (via STRNETINS ) and it loads everything you currently have. So if you have four java bits it upgrades those four java bits. If there are new java bits they don't get added. However, now you can simply go back to LICPGM 11 and add anything new. This virtual media is so fantastically fast finding each LPP that you add this way so as to make you nearly forget you wished you could include them ahead of time!


- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/10/2017 7:40 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

There is a downside to using DLSO (I still use DLSO in spite of this
annoyance) in that you cannot use the Prepare for upgrade dialog without IBM
supplied media. There are files missing from the DLSO (unless Larry's found
a way to get them included) that stop the "Work with Licensed Programs for
Target" and "Work with software agreements" from working, therefore you have
to do a manual installation. In order to do an automatic install you'll
need to temporarily load up the I_BASE into an image catalog. Once the
license agreements are loaded and approved then you can use the DLSO to set
up the list of software to update/upgrade/remove.

It's almost twice as fast to do an upgrade with DLSO since you already have
the PTFs installed and you avoid quite a number of IPL cycles. The last OS
upgrade I did in this way took just under 2 hours start to finish on a P8
with 2 cores turned up and 32Gb or memory, and they had almost every
available LPP on the system. The customer would have been very happy at
four hours.

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Subject: Re: New partition install from NFS.

And for our next trick you'll create DSLO Media and use them instead of PID
media. Then you wouldn't be doing PTFs now, they would be done already. :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 1/9/2017 3:04 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

Install finished.

VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTNET01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*OFF) CHGDEVOPT
DEVD(OPTNET01) NETIMGDIR('/fixes/cume') To change it from /fixes/V7

VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTNET01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON) INSPTF
LICPGM((*ALL)) DEV(OPTNET01) INSTYP(*DLYALL)

PTF install is zooming along...

Larry,

Why did I wait until you had to beat me severely, repeatedly, to get
me to use this?

Granted, the first time you do this you feel like you're in a strange
new world and a few more wiki's, blogs, etc of actually doing this might

help.

Rob Berendt

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