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Recovering from a Software Vital Product Database Error

If you install PE frequently, you may encounter an error such as:

0503-283 :  Error in the Software Vital Product Data.  The "usr"
        part of a product does not have the same requisite file
        as the "root" part.  The product is: ppe.poe     3.2.0.0

This usually means that there is an incompatibility in the Object Data Manager (ODM). This could be as a result of installing a version of a product where prerequisites may have changed.

You need to remove the entries for a product from ODM. The following set of commands removes the entries for POE (the ppe.poe fileset). To remove entries for a different fileset, replace ppe.poe in the following commands with the appropriate fileset name.

ODMDIR=/usr/lib/objrepos odmdelete -o product -qlpp_name=ppe.poe
ODMDIR=/usr/lib/objrepos odmdelete -o lpp -qname=ppe.poe
ODMDIR=/etc/objrepos odmdelete -o product -qlpp_name=ppe.poe
ODMDIR=/etc/objrepos odmdelete -o lpp -qname=ppe.poe


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