{"id":752,"date":"2010-01-20T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=752"},"modified":"2019-09-04T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:57:39","slug":"how-to-determine-the-aix-os-level-and-maintenance-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"How to determine the AIX OS level and Maintenance Level."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right;\"><div style=\"margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px\";><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3319935785736004\";\ngoogle_alternate_color = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"cccccc\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"cc0000\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"ffffff\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><\/div><p>IBM had renamed the term maintenance level (ML) to technology level (TL).<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from IBM, \u201cAlthough some systems administrators still use the term \u201cmaintenance level\u201d when discussing their AIX version, the term is now reserved for legacy AIX systems. The new IBM methodology dictates two TL releases per year. The first TL includes hardware features, enablement, and software services. The second includes software features in the release, which means the second release is larger and more comprehensive. Finally, there is also now support for new hardware on older TLs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To determine the machine type of an IBM AIX server use the uname command.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>uname -MuL<br \/>\nIBM,9113-550 IBM,0210A463E 1 10-A463E <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The option -M gives the machine type and model.<br \/>\n-u gives the plant code and machine identifier.<br \/>\n-L show the LPAR number and name.<\/p>\n<p>The Machine type is 9113<br \/>\nThe Model is 550<br \/>\nOF prefixm IBM, 0210A463E<br \/>\nPlant Code, 1<br \/>\nSequence number, 10-A463E<\/p>\n<p>To determine the AIX OS level and maintenance level use the instfix command with the option -i.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>instfix -i | grep AIX_ML<br \/>\nAll filesets for 5.3.0.0_AIX_ML were found.<br \/>\nAll filesets for 5300-01_AIX_ML were found.<br \/>\nAll filesets for 5300-02_AIX_ML were found.<br \/>\nNot all filesets for 5300-03_AIX_ML were found.<br \/>\nNot all filesets for 5300-04_AIX_ML were found.<br \/>\nNot all filesets for 5300-05_AIX_ML were found.IBM,9113-550 IBM,0210A463E 1 10-A463E<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can also use the command oslevel to determine the current AIX version, the -r option determines the highest recommended maintenance level.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>oslevel -r<br \/>\n5300-02<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM had renamed the term maintenance level (ML) to technology level (TL). Here is an excerpt from IBM, \u201cAlthough some systems administrators still use the term \u201cmaintenance level\u201d when discussing their AIX version, the term is now reserved for legacy&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/?p=752\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[21,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamescheat.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}