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the tool is to provide several customized modules for Ansible to manage IBM i systems.
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Not up-to-date information on IBM i Group PTFs with level #204

Open JaKo8103 opened 1 month ago

JaKo8103 commented 1 month ago

Very often the site is not updated with group level information, which makes manual downloading of data from fix centers a better way. As we know ansible uses this page and we see that it does not cause improvement for us but more and more trouble. When we go to the link of a particular group we already see the level in it one more. Can it not be so verified by the automaton in ansible ?

robgjertsen1 commented 1 month ago

Yes, there will need to be changes made here to handle the recent changes with PSP web pages. The main fix group page doesn't reflect the latest group levels as you noted and that page now notes that it will eventually be going away. It looks like we can switch to using PSP xml files to obtain the group fix information such as starting with listing of all group fixes here https://public.dhe.ibm.com/services/us/igsc/PSP/xmldoc.xml and then looking at individual xml file for a specific fix such as https://public.dhe.ibm.com/services/us/igsc/PSP/SF99667.xml for all the individual fixes used. The handling for individual fixes and their dependencies due to PSP web changes still requires more investigation.