Re: Wrapping my head around firmware

Justin,

If you are updating Group PTFs regularly, but not the CUMe PTFs, this may be a flaw in your PTF strategy.  The CUMe PTFs are what takes care of the "firmware" IIRC.

Mark

On Monday, March 2, 2020, 4:34:56 PM EST, Justin Taylor <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We do group PTFs regularly.  Our current firmware shows to be behind.  I assumed that meant it needed to be updated separately.

Thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Waterbury [mailto:mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2020 1:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Wrapping my head around firmware

Justin,

WIth a single partition and no HMC, you should not need to worry about "firmware" levels ...  as long as you are applying all the CUMe and Group PTFs on a regular basis, that should take care of it for you automatically.

This is known as "OS-managed" firmware, vs. "HMC-managed."  See:

    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/server-firmware-stand-alone-ibm-i-systems

for more information.

Hope that helps,

Mark S. Waterbury