5.5 PatchiX Training

Creating a Patch Installation Tape
Now that you have qualified the patches for your system you are ready to create the patch
installation tape. In some cases this will be a simple store of files to the tape, in many
cases this will require library components to be added to the staged libraries (copies of
SL, XL and NL.PUB.SYS) and a CSLT to be created.
There are several steps that are performed at this time:
• Setting up for Create Tape Phase.
• Restore Patches from the PowerPatch Tape (if PowerPatch option)
• Modifying the Libraries (if CSLT required)
• Create a New Start PME (if CSLT required)
• Create the Tape (either CSLT/Store or Store-Only)
Each of these steps will be described briefly in the next few sections.
Setting up for Create Tape Phase
When you enter the Create Tape screen HP Patch/iX needs to perform some initial setup
activities. The bulk of the processing that is done is the creation of the TMPSTR files.
These are indirect files that are component buckets for the various operations that are
performed later. The output of this process is the following files:
• TMPSTR00 - Intrinsic patches
• TMPSTR01 - contains the list of patch files to restore from the PowerPatch tape.
HP Patch/iX only restores the components of qualified patches so as to minimize
the amount of disk space needed.
• TMPSTR02 - This file contains a list of all of the store files that will be added to
the STORE portion of the CSLT/STORE or STORE-ONLY patch installation
tape. The format is: temporary filename = target filename:creator
• TMPSTR03 - This file contains the target file name for every file in the store
component of the patch installation tape.
• TMPSTR04 - This file contains a list of every segment to be added/replaced or
deleted from the SL. The format is: temporary USL file name, target segment
RP/AD/PU
• TMPSTR05 - This file contains a list of every SOM to be added/replaced in or
deleted from the XL. The format is: temporary UXL file name, target SOM
RP/AD/PU
• TMPSTR06 - This file contains a pointer to an OS SOM replacement file. It will
only be present if there is an OS SOM replacement in the set of patches.
• TMPSTR07 - This file contains a list of the relinker patches for the OS SOM.
• TMPSTR08 - This file contains a list of the SOMs (other than the OS SOM) to be
added/replaced or deleted in the NL. The format is: temporary filename, SOM
name RP/AD/PU
• TMPSTR09 - This file is used for patches that require a change to SYSFILEP.
• TMPSTR11 - This file contains a list of binary patches to be applied using the
SOMPATCH utility.