"Rahim" <rahim@mail2infinity.com> wrote in message
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> "Douglas R. Probst" <doug.probst@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> > SP is a windows term, these are Maintenance Level Updates.
> That was embarrassing. Put it down to lack of sleep.
>
> > I called IBM, and we went through the list and removed all the committed
> > files that were holding up the works.
> Can you remove base level OS filesets? There are a bunch of bos.rte
> filesets which are committed (bos.rte.boot, bos.rte.control ...).
> After looking at those, I assummed there was no way we could remove
> those and follow up with an install of a lower release of the filesets
> (from ML03).
>
> > Of course you should have made a mksysb or alt_disk clone prior to the
> > update, just in case something went wrong;-)
> Thing about mksysbs: we never need them when we make them. The one
> time we don't ...

Do you have Software Support? If so, call IBM, some of those filesets it
complained about were not actual the ones that needed to be removed. If the
ML was APPLIED it can be rolled back.
Just for fun, can you email me the failure section of smit.log when you try
and reject the applied filesets.
Doug