The Fix Level Recommendation Tool (FLRT) provides cross-product compatibility information and fix recommendations for IBM products. Use FLRT to plan upgrades of key components or to verify the current health of a system. Enter your current levels of firmware and software to receive a recommendation. When planning upgrades, enter the levels of firmware or software you want to use, so you can verify levels and compatibility across products before you upgrade.

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  • Cluster, Virtualization and Power software
    • AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7
    • AIX 5.3 Workload Partitions for AIX 7
    • Cluster Systems Management

    • Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library
    • General Parallel File System

    • General Parallel File System Advanced Edition
    • General Parallel File System Express Edition
    • General Parallel File System Standard Edition
    • IBM Cloud Manager with Openstack
    • LoadLeveler

    • Parallel Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library
    • Parallel Environment
    • Parallel Environment Developer Edition for AIX
    • Parallel Environment Developer Edition for Linux on x86
    • Parallel Environment Runtime Edition for AIX
    • Parallel Environment Runtime Edition for Linux on Power
    • Parallel Environment Runtime Edition for Linux on x86
    • PowerHA SystemMirror

    • PowerSC Express Edition
    • PowerSC Trusted Surveyor
    • PowerVC for Private Cloud
    • PowerVM Lx86 for x86 Linux Applications
    • PowerVP Standard Edition
    • Storage Scale
    • VM Recovery Manager DR

Products supported by this service include software products that run on AIX, IBM i, Linux on Power, select Linux distributions, Windows, z/OS, and select UNIX distributions.

To find the VIOS level on your system, enter: ioslevel

To find the LoadLeveler level with LoadLeveler, enter: llstat -v

To find the operating system level, enter: dspptf

Enter one of the following to find the GPFS level on your system. For AIX: lslpp -L gpfs.base, or For Linux: rpm -qa | grep gpfs

To determine the model and processor speed on AIX, enter: prtconf To determine the model on IBM i, enter: dsphdwrsc type(*prc)

Enter the following to find the PowerHA (HACMP) level. For AIX: lslpp -L cluster.es.server.rte

To determine your level of AIX, enter oslevel -s

Enter one of the following to determine the firmware level. For AIX: lsmcode-c, For Linux: lsmcode, or For IBM i: dspfmwsts

To find the version installed on your system, enter: csmconfig -V and then use lslpp -L csm*

To find the code level on your HMC, enter: lshmc -V

Please select versions for all the products you specified.

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