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 incorporates particular steps in PMC and eliminates the lengthy process of locating a solution on the server, downloading it, verifying its dependencies, and then repeating the process for any dependencies found. By incorporating all these processes, PMC can handle these tasks for you. Using the Multilevel Download tool significantly reduces the time spent on dependency checks.

Procedure

  1. The session locates a solution and any missing prerequisites.
  2. The Multilevel Download Tool downloads the solutions from the server and scans the solutions into PMC in the 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 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.
  3. The status of the solutions is set to Available in the session where they are waiting to be checked for installation.
Note: 

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

Before you can download solutions, you must specify some basic data for the connection with the server.

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

Individual Solution

If this check box is selected, only one solution is processed.

Note: 

This field is displayed only if the Download Protocol field is set to OAuth2 in the Parameters (ttpmc0100s000) session.

Solution Code

A unique identification code for the solution.

Solution Range

If this check box is selected, a range of solutions is processed.

Note: 

This field is displayed only if the Download Protocol field is set to OAuth2 in the Parameters (ttpmc0100s000) session.

Solution Code

The identification codes for the solutions in the range.

Note: 

This field is displayed only if the Download Protocol field is set to OAuth2 in the Parameters (ttpmc0100s000) session.

File Date

The time frame for the solutions in the range.

Note: 

This field is displayed only if the Download Protocol field is set to OAuth2 in the Parameters (ttpmc0100s000) session.

Detailed Report

If this check box is selected, a detailed report is generated that displays all the solutions that were processed regardless of whether they were already installed or connected.

If this check box is cleared, 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.

See PMC solutions check.

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