Hey, it's all billable hours, but we would have been done much earlier if IBM had their update code sorted out.
Cannot download/update for "a" software because "x" firmware is missing. "x" has been superseded by "y" and is now nowhere to be found on the fix site, and "y" has been manually installed anyway.
At least we got the firmware code on the main production system updated. The other turd is just for managing, monitoring, and updating everything.