Remove software fixes

Learn about when you can remove fixes from your system and why you want to remove them.

You can remove fixes that you installed temporarily. Delayed fixes that you installed temporarily can be removed temporarily when you do a restart or IPL (initial program load) and then removed permanently without doing an IPL. Immediate fixes that you installed temporarily can be removed either temporarily or permanently without doing an IPL. You can also remove immediate fixes that have been loaded but not applied. Fixes permanently installed cannot be removed.

Note: In iSeries™ Navigator, the concept of removing a fix is the same as uninstalling a fix. For more information about uninstalling fixes, refer to the detailed task help that is available from the iSeries Navigator window. Just click Help from the menu bar and select Help Topics. Select What can I do with . . .? to find out what you can do and where you need to be in the iSeries Navigator window to make it happen.

When fixes are removed temporarily, the original objects that were replaced by the fix are restored to the program library. The system again verifies that the fix being removed is not required for any other currently applied fix. If the fix being removed is found to be required, the other fix (that it is required for) must be removed first or at the same time.

Note: Licensed Internal Code fixes can only be removed permanently.
Parent topic: Use software fixes