RE: Firmware Updates -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks Rob... I actually have a 9009-41G. I haven't messed with this crap for years. I do not have an HMC or FLRT (I googled it).
I can't even get my laptop connected to the ASMI (had google that too) because my new Thinkpad doesn't have an ethernet port. I still don't understand the overall

Sorry I'm in rare form today - I had to cancel my vacation next week because of the weather. I'm like a grizzly with a chapped rear end. After spending most of the morning wading through IBM's crappy documentation, that someone wrote to cover every platform and every scenario, I've ran out of patience. I've requested a call from hardware support to walk me through doing this.

IBM should spend more time writing clear **concise** documentation, and spend less time cleansing their vocabulary of offensive terminology.

(sorry, rant over)

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2024 12:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Firmware Updates

If you entered all the various OS's (AIX, Linux, IBM i), VIOS, firmware, HMC version into FLRT recently, as I believe you had, and FLRT approved it, that's a start.

Since you're rather new at firmware I'd suggest that you shutdown any lpars of OS or VIOS first.
Read the firmware cover letter. If I was upgrading my 9009-41A to the latest firmware that cover letter would be
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7080070

One big difference to those of us who cut our teeth on IBM i is that when you put disruptive PTFs into microcode, like MF##### for example, IBM i will use applicable ones to flash updates to cards, etc. Firmware often doesn't do that and you have to use a different process for that. This what they are hinting at with the line "Update all adapters which are boot adapters, or which may be used as boot adapters in the future, to the latest microcode from IBM Fix Central.".
The term is "microde discovery services"
https://esupport.ibm.com/customercare/mds/

Since you're way behind, there was one firmware upgrade which insisted you do the same upgrade to the same level twice. Weird, but documented.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 9:37 AM Greg Wilburn < gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Any caveats on firmware updates?

Our system called home and opened a ticket over the weekend. IBM is
recommending we update to the latest firmware to fix a "memory leak".
The latest for our system is from January of this year.
TIA
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