We got an AIX server with default installed with 6100-06-12-1339 update - from oslevel -s command.When I do try to go with smit suma I only got the information : 0500-059 Entitlement is required to download.The system's serial number is not entitled.Please go to the Fix Central website to download fixes.Now going to page downloading TL07 and appropriate SP is not a problem - just a lot of *.bff files downloaded.I did copy them to folder /tmp/a - yeah I knew the magic name :). Created a .toc file on this folder with inutoc /tmp/a.The file is there and contains all information about the updates involved.Now starting smit update_all or smitty doesn't do a thing. The main difference is that smit update_all is saying that everything is already on same level or higher - which btw it's not. And smitty itself is constantly complaining about like 30 out of 700 updates have missing dependencies which btw are not because I did download them all from the IBM official page - every possible update. I can go to the outside world - since there's information back from update server so I can only assume that's not an issue. Please help.
Can't upgrade TL neither update SP
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If you were trying to install AIX 6.1 TL7 with a service pack lower than 9, then you would be trying to apply patches that were older than AIX 6.1 TL 6 SP 12.See: https://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/best/aix_service_strategy.pdfunder AIX Level Naming to see the build sequence identifier at the end. AIX 6100-06-12 has a sequence ID of 1339; to get a sequence ID higher than that in TL7, you'd have to select SP 9 (1341) or SP 10 (1415).Also in that PDF, under Other considerations, it says:When moving up to a new Technology Level, you must move to a Service  Pack that has the same or later Build Sequence Identifier than your  current Service Pack. The Service Pack number itself will not be the  same, because the Service Packs will be numbered consecutively as they  are released, but the dates will tell you where you need to be on the  new Technology Level. The update process will not allow an earlier  built Service Pack to be applied to avoid the chance of regression.See the releases and their sequence IDs at:https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/aix/selectFixes?release=6.1&function=release