unable to install tsm6 client on aix6.1

[wesd]

I'm trying to install tsm client 6.2.1.0 on a new 6.2 server so as I can use the dsmadmc command. The client software includes SMP runtime libraries for aix5.2 (xlsmp.aix52.rte 1.7.0.0) which I cannot leave out of the install as it is a requisite.

If I install xlsmp, the oslevel -r command on aix shows 6100-01 instead of 6100-02 which is a problem as the tsm server code expects aix to be at 6100-02.

Anyone else had this problem?

 

[budwiser]

What does the following comand give you? instfix -i | grep AIX_ML

 

[wesd]

Without the tsm client installed, I get -

# instfix -i | grep AIX_ML
All filesets for 6100-00_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 6100-01_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 6100-02_AIX_ML were found.

Once I install the client, the command shows -

# instfix -i | grep AIX_ML
All filesets for 6100-00_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 6100-01_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 6100-02_AIX_ML were found.

Not a great surprise, I suppose, since I wouldn't expect that xlsmp.aix52.rte 1.7.0.0 belongs on an aix6.1 box but I can't install tsm without this fileset. Even our older boxes with aix5300-09 show this fileset as xlsmp.aix53.rte 1.8.0.0.

 

[budwiser]

Just out of curiousity, what comes back with the following command?

instfix -icqk 6100-02_AIX_ML | grep :-:

 

[wesd]

That outputs -

# instfix -icqk 6100-02_AIX_ML | grep :-:
6100-02_AIX_ML:xlsmp.rte:1.8.0.0:1.7.0.0:-:AIX 6100-02 Update

Does that imply that the box had 1.8.0.0 installed at some point and has been overwritten by 1.7.0.0 or does it mean that 1.8.0.0 is the level it expects to find but could only find 1.7.0.0

 

[budwiser]

Its expecting to see level 1.8.0.0 but 1.7.0.0 is what is installed. Whenever a fileset is missing from an os upgrade you get the unexpected output that you received from the oslevel -r or oslevel -s .