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toshi78
PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:48 pm    Post subject: GSKit Version Reply with quote

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Hi collegues,

I'm planning the migration from 7.1 to 7.5 on Solaris and I'm wondering where I can find the version number of GSKit is in the packages. Where can I find which version of GSKit is in MQ 7.5.0.0 and which one in FixPack 7.5.0.1?

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Toshi
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hughson
PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 4:11 am    Post subject: Re: GSKit Version Reply with quote

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toshi78 wrote:
Where can I find which version of GSKit is in MQ 7.5.0.0 and which one in FixPack 7.5.0.1?

The product readmes are supposed to list them (see V7.1 ReadMe as an example), but they got missed for the V7.5 readmes. This is currently being addressed.

In the mean time, here is the answer:-
MQ V7.5.0 GA 8.0.14.21
MQ V7.5.0 FP 1 8.0.14.26

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Morag
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toshi78
PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks for your answer.

But now I'm a bit confused because a few minutes ago I found a way to list what's inside the packages.

Usualy I would execute pkgadd to view the selection of installable packages but I've got no root rights yet. Instead I used pkgtrans.

Code:

$ ls -l
total 1942714
-rwxr--r--   1 mqm   mqm      698931200 Jul 11 14:55 CI79EML.tar
drwxr-xr-x+  3 mqm   mqm           96 Jun  4  2012 PreReqs
drwxr-xr-x+ 18 mqm   mqm         1024 Jun  4  2012 READMEs
-rw-r--r--   1 mqm   mqm          261 Jun  4  2012 copyright
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mqm   mqm         3445 Jun  4  2012 crtmqpkg
drwxr-xr-x+  4 mqm   mqm           96 Jun  4  2012 lap
drwxr-xr-x+  2 mqm   mqm         1024 Jun  4  2012 licenses
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mqm   mqm         5357 Jun  4  2012 mqlicense.sh
drwxr-xr-x+  4 mqm   mqm           96 Jun  4  2012 mqm
drwxr-xr-x+  2 mqm   mqm           96 Jun  4  2012 silent

$ pkgtrans -i . ..

The following packages are available:
  1  mqm     IBM WebSphere MQ for Solaris
             (sparcv9) 7.5.0.0

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: q


$ pkgtrans -i mqm-U200360.img .

The following packages are available:
  1  mqm-07-05-00-01     IBM WebSphere MQ for Solaris - U200360
                         (sparcv9) 7.5.0.1

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: q


Why there are no GSKit packages listed?
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toshi78
PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Now I've seen the following sentence on page "Installing WebSphere MQ server on Solaris" of MQ 7.5 Infocenter:

"You do not need the -G option on the pkgadd command as GSKit is now installed as part of the WebSphere MQ installation."

Coherent I don't need to uninstall GSKit before installing fixpack 7.5.0.1. Is it correct?
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hughson
PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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toshi78 wrote:
I don't need to uninstall GSKit before installing fixpack 7.5.0.1. Is it correct?


It is correct.

You do not need to uninstall GSkit before installing a fixpack.

You have never needed to.

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toshi78
PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thank you!!

But in previous fixpacks they always told us to deinstall GSKit. For example at "3.4.3.4 Solaris" in readme file of fixpack 7.0.1.6:

Code:

Shut down all WebSphere MQ applications and any other products that are using GSKit.  Before installing the WebSphere MQ fix pack uninstall the old level of the GSKit packages using the commands:

pkgrm gsk7bas
pkgrm gsk7bas64

During the uninstallation process you will be warned that other products have a dependency on the GSKit packages, reply 'Yes' to continue the uninstallation process.

When installing the WebSphere MQ fix pack the new GSKit packages gsk7bas and gsk7bas64 will be listed with the WebSphere MQ package.


But now I know that I don't need it anymore and it's OK for me. Thanks again.

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Toshi
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