Re: A rant - getting PTF's for IBMi - a real hassle -- MIDRANGE-L

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Depending on your environment, maybe you need a centralized server to
download the patches to. From there install them to your servers in an
orderly manner to ensure you have no issues. Example, DEV, QA then
Production.

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 4:09 AM Marc Rauzier <marc.rauzier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Le 21/08/2021 à 01:14, Laurence Chiu a écrit :

Just wondering how this IBMi community working in a large corporate
environment with strict Internet access, manage their patching?

You can use SNDPTFORD command _from_ your IBM i partition to download
PTFs _from_ FixCentral _through_ a proxy. Proper service configuration
is required and made easy with CRTSRVCFG command.

Checkout

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configuration-instructions-electronic-customer-support-ecs-and-electronic-service-agent-esa-ibm-i
and

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/electronic-service-agent-esa-and-electronic-customer-support-ecs-vpn-and-http-firewall-settings
documents.

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