Using the Clean Up Software Images in Repository option

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The Clean Up Software Images in Repository option allows you to remove unneeded or duplicate software images from a local software-image repository.

You can remove duplicate software, superseded updates, and language software:
  • The Remove Duplicate software option allows you to remove duplicate base and update images from the specified directory.
  • The Remove Superseded updates option allows you to remove superseded filesets from the specified directory. This action applies only to update images.
  • The Remove Language software option allows you to remove language and locale filesets that are not needed on your system. This option removes all language and locale filesets from the specified directory, except the language specified in the PRESERVE language field. By default, the value of the LANG environment variable for the system is used to determine the language to preserve.
  • The Save Removed files option allows you to save all removed files to the location specified in the DIRECTORY for storing saved files field. Select true in this field if you want to move the images to another location instead of removing them from the hard disk drive.

This option is available using the SMIT cleanup_software fast path.