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Chapter 14. Firmware maintenance 459
Figure 14-48 shows our current firmware levels before we install and apply our marker PTF.
see “Using the i5/OS service partition to display firmware levels” on page 447 to view your
own system firmware levels.
We can see that our system firmware update policy is set to operating system by the OS
MANAGED key word show below.
Figure 14-48 i5/OS firmware levels before PTF installation
The following commands are issued from the i5/OS service partition 5250 command line:
1. Load the firmware PTFs on your service partition. In our example, we used Fix Central to
download the marker PTF MH00248 and its co-requisite directly to the service partition.
a. LODPTF LICPGM(5722999) DEV(*SAVF) SELECT(MH00230)
SAVF(*LIBL/QMH00230)
b. LODPTF LICPGM(5722999) DEV(*SAVF) SELECT(MH00251)
SAVF(*LIBL/QMH00251)
c. LODPTF LICPGM(5722999) DEV(*SAVF) SELECT(MH00252)
SAVF(*LIBL/QMH00252)
d. LODPTF LICPGM(5722999) DEV(*SAVF) SELECT(MH00248)
SAVF(*LIBL/QMH00248)
2. Apply the marker PTF as a delayed PTF along with its co-requisite PTFs:
APYPTF LICPGM(5722999) SELECT(MH00248) DELAYED(*YES) APYREQ(*YES)
We receive message - CPI35A1 Licensed internal code fixes set to be temporarily applied.
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OS MANAGED
MiKeyword: NVRAM: SF222_075
Side Date/Time MI Keyword PTFs
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Memory 20041215/1425 SF222_075 MH00199
Flash P 20041215/1425 SF222_075 MH00199
Flash T 20041215/1425 SF222_075 MH00199
Load Source A 20041215/1425 SF222_075 MH00199
Load Source B 20041215/1425 SF222_075 MH00199
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Important: We recommend that you install HMC fixes before you upgrade to a new server
firmware release.