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Step 4. Update the Software Inventory

Update the software inventory to prepare the product materials for later service application by updating the Software Inventory status tables.

Enter the following command to update the software inventory:

VMFINS BUILD PPF ppfname component ( SERVICED

PPF

Indicates the values following this keyword, and the values are the Product Parameter File (PPF) file name, followed by the name of a component defined in the PPF.

In most cases, to specify the ppfname use the name of the supplied PPF file for this release, which is ZVME031A. If you have created a PPF Override file, as described below and in the appendix Create Product Parameter File (PPF) Override, you specify the file name of your PPF override file.

For the component value, use VMDIRECT for installing on minidisks. Specify VMDIRECTSFS for installing on Shared File System directories.

SERVICED

Specifies that the Software Inventory Status tables be built.