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Status Submitted
Workspace VM Recovery Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 23, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

New -l (list) flag for 'vmruiinst.ksh' to show URL of all RPMs to download

Currently the GUI vmruiinst.ksh script provides -d & -p flags to download required RPMs from the Internet (see Case TS019597256).
Bust many Clients do not have an AIX LPAR with Internet connection therefore it's a problem for them to download all required RPMs.
The idea is to add a new -l (list) flag that would simply show to the User on screen the list of the URLs of all RPMs so that the User can cut&paste each URL in the Browser of his PC and download all necessary RPMs on his PC and then ftp them to the GUI Server.   For ex:

# vmruiinst.ksh -l
  https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/bash/bash-5.0.18-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
  https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc-7.3/gcc/libstdcplusplus-10-2.aix7.3.ppc.rpm
  https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc-7.3/gcc/libgcc-10-2.aix7.3.ppc.rpm
    etc....

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