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  • 1.  Regarding AIX TL/SP upgradation

    Posted Fri March 18, 2011 02:14 AM

    Originally posted by: U2VD_Venkata_Kishore_Chelluboi


    I have few basic doubts. Please clarify.

    1. If my AIX machine is at level 6100-04-06-1034, can I install 6100-03-08-1048 fixset? I mean though my machine is at higher level of TL, can I install latest fixset of lower level?
    2. If my AIX machine is at level 6100-03-08-1048, can I upgrade to 6100-06-03-1048?
    3. Is there any recommendation like first should upgrade to TL and then only SP? For suppose, my machine is at the level 6100-02-01-0847. If I want to bring my machine to the level 6100-06-03-1048, first have to install 6100-06-00-1036 and then SP3 or can I install directly the fixset 6100-06-03-1048?

    Thanks in Advance
    Kishore
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  • 2.  Re: Regarding AIX TL/SP upgradation

    Posted Fri March 18, 2011 12:55 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Hello.

    1. Yes you can. There's no problem if you want to do that. In fact, would be the best if you could keep it always on the lastest level.

    2. Yes, it's ok either.

    3. No. There's no problem. You can go to www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral and download both together. You will then, create one .toc for everything.

    Tancredi
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  • 3.  Re: Regarding AIX TL/SP upgradation

    Posted Fri March 18, 2011 05:18 PM

    Originally posted by: unixgrl


    Some clarification:

    1. Why would you want to go to a lower TL level? You could be losing hardware support or features by doing so. Not every TL has support for all new stuff.

    2. Yes if the builddate of the TL/SP combo is newere than what you have.
    For example, TL3SP8 is probably newer than TL5SP1 so you couldn't upgrade to TL5SP1. There's a graphic on FixCentral that shows TL/SP and release dates.

    3. FixCentral does not include base-level filesets, only service packs.
    So, when you are skipping from TL2 to TL6 and want support for the newest hardware and/or features you will need to get new base-level filesets for the TL through your IBM rep or download them from IBM entitlement site.
    You can then choose to put both the new base-levels and the latest SP in the same lpp_source or installp directory and update everything at the same time.
    Also, you'll have to get updates to rsct,xlC, java separately from FixCentral.
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