Download, Scan and Connect Solution (Multi-Level) (ttpmc2210s000)

Use this session to download, scan, and connect solutions, including the related solutions. You can also use this session for collections, but in that case, the session only downloads and scans the specified collection; related solutions are not downloaded.

This session is used as a single solution installation tool. The session was created to incorporate particular steps in PMC. The tool is designed to eliminate the long process of locating a solution on the external FTP server, downloading the solution, and checking the solution for dependencies. You then must repeat the process for any dependencies found. By incorporating all of these processes, you can have PMC do the work for you. Using the Multilevel Download tool, your time spent with dependency checks will dramatically decrease.

Procedure

The session locates a solution and any missing prerequisites. The Multilevel Download Tool then downloads the solutions from the external FTP server and scans the solutions into PMC in the session.

The solutions are then moved to the Available status in the session. In addition, the solutions are currently waiting to be checked for installation.

You must know which solution you want to download when you run this session.

This session performs this process:

  1. Downloads the specified solution for the specified update VRC. Because a solution can exist for various base VRCs, you must specify the update VRC that has a relation to a base VRC.
  2. Scans the downloaded solution, which means that the solution is registered in the registry of solutions, and connected to the specified update VRC. If the solution has a pre-requisite relation and/or a co-requisite relation with one or more other solutions, and these other solutions are not yet connected to the specified update VRC, the session downloads and connects these solutions as well:
    • If the solutions were downloaded and registered previously, and connected to another update VRC, these solutions are connected to the specified update VRC. A solution can be connected to several update VRCs.
    • If the solutions were not downloaded previously, the solutions are downloaded, registered and connected to the specified update VRC.
    This step repeats, because the connected and/or downloaded solutions are also scanned, and the solutions they require are also downloaded, registered, connected, and so on.
Note: 

Before you can download solutions, you must specify some basic data for the connection with the FTP server. Use the session to specify this data. If you did not specify a password in that session, you are prompted for a password when you run the current session. However, in that case, you cannot run the current session as a job.

You can also download solutions manually. Patches are always copied manually. In both cases, you must scan and connect the solutions using the session.

Field Information

Update VRC

update VRC

Solution Code

A unique identification code for the solution.

Detailed Report

If this check box is selected, a detailed report is generated that displays all the solutions that were processed, even if the solutions were already installed or connected. If you do not select the detailed report, only error messages are printed.

Download Post Release Dependencies

If this check box is selected, the PMCDepend<cust> file is downloaded to your server. The last known Dependencies After Publish are cached in the database. If the solution has post-requisites in the cached database, they are downloaded, scanned, and connected.

During the download, a warning may be displayed in these situations:

  • The PMCDepend<cust> file is not yet present on the download site.
  • An issue occurred during the download process.
Note: In a multi-tenant cloud environment, this functionality is not available. Therefore, this field is not visible.

"PMC solutions check" in the Infor Enterprise Server Administration Guide

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