You must be still on V7R1 or ordering the groups individually. If you order
SF99711, or SF99721, or SF99731 depending on OS level you'll get all the
groups (not the cumulative) but the duplicate PTFs are compressed out so
you only get each PTF once. V7R3 is currently at 5 DVD images and V7R3 at
7. V7R1 is up to 10 I think. (all including the Cumulative)
You might think that wasteful to download PTFs you already have, but PTFs do
get updated occasionally when there is a defective or other problem with the
image, and you'll always avoid missing pre/co requisites this way. The
savings in download time between doing all of them and using SNDPTFORD to
customize the download is maybe 20% so it's not really saving that much.
Items like PowerHA and a couple of other LPPs will need some individual PTFs
almost every time since they don't get added to the group all that quickly.
If SNDPTFORD works for you, go for it, but as Rob indicated for multiple
partitions once you get the hang of it, the NFS load works really well.
Hint: if you did not know IBM created an API to empty and refill an image
catalogs.
" call qvoifimg parm('IMAGECATALOGNAME' '*ALL' 0) "
The '*ALL' in upper case is important.
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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Justin Taylor
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 12:14 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: V7R1 SNDPTFORD issue - PTFs mailed
You download all PTF's without checking what you already have? The guy
that's my alt for doing PTF's has done that a couple times. It was 10
disks. That seems wasteful to me, but I guess it would be simpler for
multiple LPAR's.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:59 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: V7R1 SNDPTFORD issue - PTFs mailed
I fail to understand why anyone would want to run SNDPTFORD for each lpar
either.
I struggled with accepting the NFS model for way too long.
But, even if you have an issue with that, just use Fix Central to order them
and bring them down the FTP way, once. I never tell it to compare what's on
my machine, just get them all. I start the FTP in batch and check the next
day.
Rob Berendt
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