Try option 24: PTF menu.
It won't go to the individual PTF level, that's a real rare need, but it'll
get you close.
For individual PTFs you'll have to use SQL and call the services provided by
IBM.
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Jim Oberholtzer
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt
Olson
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:38 PM
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Subject: RE: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval
Which menu option to use on that? I see there is a PowerHA PTF compare
option. But we don't have PowerHA...
It seems to me the SNDPTFORD command is probably the way to go as the
REORDER command skips the PTFS you already have installed, and CHKPTF(*NO)
will exclude all the PTF's for LPP's we don't have.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Oberholtzer [mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:27 PM
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Subject: RE: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval
Some help is available.
First go out and get the MGTools (must gather tools) for your
version/Release. Install that. It's a save file you restore, about as
easy as it gets.
See:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1010441
In that menu there are options that will compare some of the LPPs to the
list of PTFs (regardless of if they are in a group or not) plus give you a
list of groups that you have installed and what the current list is at IBM.
(Requires server to be able to get to the internet)
Then there are the system services available in SQL that Scott Forstie has
provided. Rob has posted many an SQL statement on that topic.
That will get you close depending on your real needs.
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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:19 PM
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Subject: RE: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval
This is what was happening specifically:
1. Login to ibm site
2. request PTF groups we want (have to manually see which ones we are behind
on) 3. IBM would create a special PTF download location on an FTP site 4.
Get email with the special download location 5. Click the ftp:// link 6.
Download each file one by one (could have used filezilla or something as an
easier step) 7. Copy files to IFS 8. load the image catalog
I was envisioning a "request ptf" command on IBM I that would cross
reference all installed products on the IBMi and show you just the ones you
were behind one, then put a "1" next to the ones you want to update, and it
would begin downloading automatically.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Olson [mailto:Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:09 PM
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Subject: RE: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval
I actually don't have a clue.
My colleague is going through a multiple of PTF retrieval and FTP steps. I
was watching, and I wondered why it was so many steps.
Every OS I know of has this (Linux = Apt-get update, Windows = Windows
Update, OS X = App store updates), so I assume IBM has it as well but we are
just not informed of the best way to go about it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval
Is this one you already knew so that you can answer with some smirky "Well,
Windows has this..."?
Rob Berendt
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From: Matt Olson <Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/29/2017 01:50 PM
Subject: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval
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Hi all,
Probably an easy question.
What command in a 5250 session will show me all PTF's that I am behind, and
allow me to place a checkmark next to each one and download/auto-update the
system.
Thanks!
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