View available fixes

You can view a list of the fixes in a source repository that are available to install.

Procedure

1. Open a command-line utility.

2. Open the tools directory. See Locating the tools directory for more information about the tools directory.

3. Run the command to list available fixes:

   imcl listAvailableFixes packageID_packageVersion -repositories source_repository1,source_repository2 -long

   Include quotation marks around filepaths that have spaces. Examples using the -long option:

   • Windows:
     imcl.exe listAvailableFixes com.ibm.product.package_1.0.0 -repositories http://server/repository,"C:\Installation Files\IBM" -long

   • Linux, UNIX, IBM i and z/OS:
     ./imcl listAvailableFixes com.ibm.product.package_1.0.0 -repositories http://server/repository -long

Results

When you run the listAvailableFixes command with the -repositories option, the returned information is a list of fixes in the following format:

fixID_version_1
fixID_version_2

When you run the listAvailableFixes command with the -repositories and -long options, the returned information includes a longer description of the fixes that are included in the repository. The returned information is in the following format:

repository_path_1 : fixID_version_1 : recommended=[true|false]
repository_path_1 : fixID_version_2 : recommended=[true|false]
repository_path_2 : fixID_version_3 : recommended=[true|false]

What to do next

After viewing the list of available fixes, use imcl commands to install.

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