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Status Future consideration
Workspace Spectrum LSF
Components Scheduling
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 18, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog.

Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (indeed the case now), I’ve to be very careful in maintaining the patch order and verify/validate each time and run reconfigs as many times. As you understand, reconfig instruction is not same for each patch.

There is a need for a tool which can handle

  • multiple such patch installs in one-go

  • Is aware of installed FixPack version and aware of already included patches

  • validate dependencies OR overwrite scenarios for all patches at once

  • advise exact reconfig steps needed (its okay to stick with one instruction, say full reconfig)


Needed By Quarter
  • Guest
    Jul 25, 2025

    I would like to see a patchinstall prune command to say prune an entire install tree like the 2.6 kernel stuff, or to prune any patch older than a specific date as over a 5-10 years cycle the pversions command get's a bit unwieldy.

    Also, I agree that if you want to do one set of patches that would otherwise require the restart of the cluster several times, allow them all to be installed and archived in one go around prior to the restart.  That could get tricky though as some patches may mandate a restart due to potential XDR or other alignment type issues related to the use of unversioned shared libraries.  So, buyer beware.

    Regards,

    Larry

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