Using the Software Service Management menu (including SUMA)

The Software Service Management menu allows access to Service Update Management Assistant (SUMA) functions, which significantly simplify the system update process by allowing policy-based automatic downloads of technology level updates from the Web.

The Software Service Management menu allows generation of reports to manage filesets installed on a system, filesets contained in a repository, and filesets available from the IBM® System p support website. It also provides a way for you to clean up and rename software images in a repository.

You can perform these actions using either the SMIT service_software fast path or by using commands directly from the command line. The following sections briefly describe how to do each action using SMIT or a command.