Re: Firmware update for P10 with New HMC

Yea, sometimes IBM documentation is lacking, while normally fairly good.   

What grinds me is when you find the perfect video someone at IBM did, but it’s too old to be relevant.   That’s what I ran into.  

I understood what Rob was getting at.  


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

> On May 8, 2026, at 1:10 PM, Rob Berendt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Really?  Did you actually click on the link?  It had one paragraph which
> basically said.  Start here.  Click help if you can't figure it out.
> I wasn't laughing at Jim not finding the link I provided.  I was laughing
> at the extremely limited contents of the link provided.
> 
>> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> The ROTFLMAO was a bit rude.
>> 
>> He said he was only finding older versions and was asking about newer
>> versions so obviously he did not find YOUR version.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MIDRANGE-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rob
>> Berendt
>> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2026 12:56 PM
>> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Firmware update for P10 with New HMC
>> 
>> What, you find the following less than thorough?
>> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power11/9824-22A?topic=hmt-update-hmc
>> 
>> ROTFLMAO
>> 
>> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 10:55 AM Jim Oberholtzer <
>> [email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a customer that wants to learn how to do the Firmware update on
>>> his own on an HMC managed system with multiple partitions, (without my
>>> assistance) and he is asking for documentation.
>>> 
>>> Google and associated AI come up with many examples, all of them using
>>> the OLDER HMC code, not the new interface.
>>> 
>>> Maybe I’m searching wrong, but is there a new video or document that
>>> shows how to install and implement the firmware?
>>> 
>>> Jim Oberholtzer
>>> Agile Technology Architects
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