Readme and Release notes for release 6.3.0.1 Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 09/17/2021 Installing an ESSL update on Linux --------------------------------- If you want to upgrade an existing install of ESSL 6.3.0: 1) Copy the tar file to a directory with write access and change to that directory cd < tarDirectory > 2) Extract the files and executable from the tar file with the following command: tar -xzvf ESSL-6.3.0.1-ppc64LE-Linux.tar.gz 3) Issue RPM commands for the RPMs you wish to upgrade rpm -Uvh essl.3264.rte-6.3.0-1.ppc64le.rpm rpm -Uvh essl.3264.rtecuda-6.3.0-1.ppc64le.rpm rpm -Uvh essl.6464.rte-6.3.0-1.ppc64le.rpm If you want to install ESSL 6.3.0 including this upgrade using automatic license acceptance: 1) Copy the tar file to a directory with write access and change to that directory cd < tarDirectory > 2) Extract the files and executable from the tar file with the following command: tar -xzvf ESSL-6.3.0.1-ppc64LE-Linux.tar.gz 3) Copy the RPMs to the directory which contains all the ESSL 6.3.0 RPMs that you wish to install. See "Determining which product RPMs to install" section of the ESSL for Linux on POWER, Version 6 Release 3 Installation Guide for information on which RPMs are required and which are optional 4) cd to the directory with the RPMs 5) export IBM_ESSL_LICENSE_ACCEPT=yes 6) rpm -Uvh essl*6.3.0-*.rpm Package Content --------------- 1) ESSL-6.3.0.1-ppc64LE-Linux.tar.gz APAR changes included --------------------- PH40102 = Potential undetected data corruption using the ESSL single threaded libraries SZAXPY subroutine on Power9