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Task summary for applying maintenance

You perform different tasks to apply product maintenance depending on how you obtained the maintenance and what type of maintenance you obtained.

Related topic

Maintaining-your-products

The following table list the different tasks to perform based on possible scenarios.

Maintenance scenarios

Scenario

How to complete the task

Reference

Checking for product fixes

Check notices for your product on the A-Z Supported Product List for new fixes or PTFs that BMC released after your installation media was prepared.

Applying maintenance or fixes by using IBM SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER

Perform the following steps:

  1. Prepare to use SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER.
  2. Create the RECEIVE ORDER job.
  3. Run the RECEIVE ORDER job.

Applying maintenance or fixes by using the BMC web-based maintenance request service for RECEIVE ORDER

Perform the following steps:

  1. Request a maintenance package.
  2. Retrieve a maintenance package.
  3. Process a maintenance package.

Applying RSL maintenance by using physical media

Perform the following steps:

  1. Generate jobs to download and perform maintenance.
  2. Run jobs to apply maintenance.

Deploying maintenance to runtime data sets

Perform the deployment maintenance tasks.

Performing maintenance for a system administration product for IMS

Perform the following steps:

  1. Back up option modules.
  2. Perform maintenance.
  3. Reassemble the options module.

Performing maintenance for any BMC product for IMS that does not use SMP/E for maintenance

Run the DBUCOPY utility.

Performing maintenance for an Online Reorg product when you do not want an IMS system outage

Update the products by using non-disruptive maintenance.

 

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