Patch installation
Under some scenarios, IBM® releases a patch that fixes or updates a part of the product. Patch installation does not cause any interruption to the IO processing.
Patches are made available on FixCentral with the help of direct download
link (for more information, see Obtaining
packages) or as part of a
general collection of available patches.
- For patches that are made available by a direct download link
- To start the installation process:
- Go to .
- To install the patch, under Alternative update options section, check Use an existing package.
- Select the patch from the list of available packages on the system and click Install Patch.
- For patches that are released as part of a general collection of available patches
- To start the installation process:
- Go to .
- To install the patch, select View available patches, and click Install from the overflow menu.
- To view or remove the patches in the GUI, select View installed patches on the Update System panel.
Note: The View available patches link only works correctly if the patch auto update service is enabled. To enable the patch-auto update service use the panel in the management GUI.Also, the View available patches link is displayed only when minimum of one patch is installed on the system or at least one patch is available for patch installation.
Manage patches by using the CLI:
- To install a patch, see applysoftware.
- To remove a specified patch, see removepatch.
- To remove all patches, see purgepatches.
- To list the generally available patches, see lsavailablepatch.
- To download a patch, see satask downloadsoftware.
- To set up a patch to auto update, see chsystempatch.
- To start, or stop, the patch auto update service, see chsecurity .