A little while back I posted a perl script (http://blog.gulfsoft.com/2009/05/script-to-retrieve-tivoli-patches.html) to list updated patches on ftp.software.ibm.com. It appears that only some patches are getting updated there and all patches are now being handled on a new service called Fix Central.
I have now updated the script to look at the Fix Central site to provide this same function.The file can be downloaded from http://www.gulfsoft.com/downloads/blog_downloads/patches_list_fc.zip
Why do you don't just use the RSS feeds from IBM announcing new and upcoming patches?
ReplyDeleteI guess for one thing I did not see the RSS feed :) Do you have the link for it as I did not see it on the Fix Central site.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I like the way that this works to send me an email of everything that has been updated. I can easily customize the script to filter out products that I am not interested in.
Whichever way you choose :)
General Feeds:
ReplyDeletehttp://www-304.ibm.com/isv/news/rss/feeds.html
All:
Click the "View All"
http://www-304.ibm.com/isv/news/rss/feeds.html
After invoked this script on ubuntu 12.04,it failed:
ReplyDeleteyoung@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ perl -i patches_list_fc.pl
Print Updates to updates_fc.html.
Can't call method "Open" without a package or object reference at patches_list_fc.pl line 458.
The error message is on line 458 which is:
ReplyDelete$lSender->Open({ from => $gSenderAddr,
Given that, I would have to say it is because you are missing the mail module. Check on the following line in your script:
use Mail::Sender;
It is possible that you do not have this module in PERL and may have to load it.
Just to note, it has been a while since I looked at this code, but I still have it running and it is generating emails with list of fixes. The only problem is that the formats seem to be changing a bit and not everything seems to be visible on Fix Central.