Re: Firmware Updates -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Firmware Updates
From: Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:50:51 +0100
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Hello Vern,

Am 27.02.2024 um 16:51 schrieb VERNON HAMBERG Owner via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

In the arena of updates, to accomplish what Greg is recommending, I think I can say that IBM already "provide readymade applications to relieve the sysadmin from the chore of manually comparing values, and conditionally compute a result" - it's called Administration Runtime Expert (5733-ARE). More info at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-administration-runtime-expert-i.

Thanks for pointing this out.

After a quick glance, ARE is not what I was talking about. It's an OS dependent application for local install with a much broader goal about "consistent performance and deployment". Handling PTFs is just a sub-function of it. Handling firmware updates in an OS independent way is completely out of scope. Firmware handling being different depending on the availability of a HMC doesn't make things exactly easier to grasp.

:wq! PoC

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