Originally posted by: d1land

Hello all,

Please bear with me as I am pretty unfamiliar with the suma command. I have a AIX server that was at 5300-02. Using suma I was able to update to 5300-04 quite easily. My frustration comes into play when trying to upgrade further to 5300-05 (and beyond). I get a long list of missing prerequisites. All of which are at the level 5.3.0.0, which I cannot download from suma. My question is 2 fold. 1.) Are the base filesets going to be available at some point to download via suma? 2.) Why would suma complain about these filesets when attempting to go from TL 4 to TL 5 but not from TL 2 to TL 4? I have tried filtering against the localhost and a file created with lslpp -Lc > suma_file. I don't know about everyone else, but it is very frustrating that the suma tool would require so much manual intervention.
Thanks,
-DL

Originally posted by: dukessd

1. Base filesets cannot be downloaded, the must be installed from AIX install media / CDs.
2. Sounds like SUMA is broken, you probably don't need the extra base filesets, call IBM and ask for help or download the TL from fixcentral and do a smitty update_all.