how to reject all APPLIED packages fast not one by one?

[ogniemi]

any idea?

 

[cspilman]

I haven't tested this but this should work (recommend testing on a test system first):

lslpp -lc |awk -F: '{if($5=="APPLIED"){system("installp -r " $2)}}'

Regards,
Chuck

 

[kHz]

Its in the smitty install menu.

 

[DukeSSD]

smitty maintain_software

 

[joegombos]

You can use the "all" keyword provided that it's specified within a file. I strongly recommend doing a dry run first in preview mode and check for any errors, depedencies, etc, eg:

echo all > /tmp/a
installp -rpf /tmp/a

then if all is OK run

installp -rf /tmp/a

I don't know what AIX version you're running but I have found that when attempting to reject lots of filesets (such as complete maintenance levels) in later versions of AIX invariably result in lots of filesets being left in a broken state. Make sure you take a mksysb and any other backups first!!!

Hope this helps...

Joe