Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I'm trying to establish if there is an easy way to determine whether or not the output from a patch listing can be used to determine if critical/recommended patches are missing or not. Using the command /usr/sbin/instfix -ia
produces close to 2000 entries with the following text -

No filesets which have fixes for <patchid> are currently installed.

Is there an easy way to determine which of these are truly an issue?
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Originally posted by: alethad

If you already know the patch you are looking for the syntax for instfix is:
instfix -ik |grep IYXXXXX (or IZXXXXX)

Or do you mean missing requisites/filesets, which is different? Like lppchk -v ?
Check out the oslevel command also. I think this might be what you're looking for.
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Originally posted by: alethad

For got to say the -rl should show you missing filesets for the OS level you have installed. You didn't say what OS level you are installing/running.

Try this oslevel -rl oslevel format

example of mine is * oslevel -rl 5300-08-03-0847*
good luck.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thank you for your very prompt responses to my question. My challenge is I no longer have access to the system from which this information was obtained. I can make a list of all the patchset id's that have that entry - what i was hoping was to be able to compare that against a recommended/critical list of the same - perhaps on the web - or to obtain that list from the web in order to make a comparison - the os level is 5300-08-00-0818 - Thanks!
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