Downloading Patches; Unpacking Patches; Installing Patches - IBM 2074 Installation And Maintenance Information

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Downloading Patches

Unpacking Patches

Installing Patches

1. Open an OS/2 window
2. Enter: QLEVEL
3. Keep pressing Enter until the 2074 level scrolls onto the screen.
4. Continue pressing Enter to return to the C prompt.
Patches are available as ZIP files from the IBM Intranet FTP site listed above.
From your IBM Thinkpad or customer's PC:
1. Use your usual method to connect to the IBM Intranet.
2. Establish a FTP connection to the 2074 FTP site by connecting to the IBM
Intranet enter FTP S390IS.POK.IBM.COM.
3. Enter anonymous when prompted for a name.
4. Enter your last name followed by @IBMCE for the password. For example
enter my_name@ibmce.
5. At the FTP> prompt enter bin to transfer files in binary mode.
6. At the FTP> prompt enter CD 2074 to switch to the 2074 subdirectory.
7. At the FTP> prompt enter CD LPATCH to switch to the patch subdirectory.
8. At the FTP> prompt enter dir to list the available patches. Note the filename of
the patch you want to download.
9. At the FTP> prompt enter get filename to download the required patch.
10. Repeat the previous step to download any additional patches.
11. At the FTP> prompt enter quit to end the FTP session.
12. Copy the patch files to diskette(s) and bring them to the IBM 2074.
On the 2074 system:
1. Open an OS/2 window.
2. Create a temp directory to copy the patches to by entering MD \PATCH.
Note: This may fail if the directory already exists; this not an error.
3. Switch to the directory where the patches are to be downloaded to by entering
CD \PATCH.
4. Copy the patch files from the diskette onto the 2074's hard disk: COPY A:\*.*
C:\PATCH:
Patches are shipped (downloaded) as ZIP files, and need to be unpacked
(unzipped) before they can be installed.
1. Open an OS/2 window.
2. Enter CD \PATCH to switch to the subdirectory where the patches were
downloaded.
3. Enter dir *.zip to list the downloaded patches.
4. Enter PKUNZIP2 filename.zip -d -o to unpack each patch.
Application of service cannot be concurrent with normal operations. The customer
must tell all his users that their terminal sessions are going down, and you must
shutdown the 2074 I/O subsystem by clicking on End Channel Adapter 0 and 1
icons.
Chapter 3. Service Procedures
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