Nicht benötigte Filesets lassen sich aus einer spot NIM-Ressource am einfachsten über die Operation „maint“ entfernen. Dazu wird als Wert für das zwingend erforderliche Attribut installp_flags „-u“ oder einfach nur „u“ (uninstall) angegeben. Als Wert des Attributs wird eine durch Leerzeichen getrennte Liste von zu deinstallierenden Filesets angegeben:

Als Beispiel entfernen wir das Fileset rpm.rte aus dem SPOT aix730101spot:

aixnim # nim -o maint -a installp_flags=u -a filesets=rpm.rte aix730101spot

Performing software maintenance in the root directories of any diskless or
dataless clients served by this SPOT, and in any shared_root directories
created from this SPOT.  This may take several minutes ...

Performing software maintenance "aix730101spot" ...
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                    Pre-deinstall Verification...
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Verifying selections...done
Verifying requisites...done
Results...

SUCCESSES
---------
  Filesets listed in this section passed pre-deinstall verification
  and will be removed.

  Selected Filesets
  -----------------
  rpm.rte 4.15.1.2006                         # RPM Package Manager

  << End of Success Section >>

FILESET STATISTICS
------------------
    1  Selected to be deinstalled, of which:
        1  Passed pre-deinstall verification
  ----
    1  Total to be deinstalled

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                           Deinstalling Software...
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

installp: DEINSTALLING software for:
        rpm.rte 4.15.1.2006

Finished processing all filesets.  (Total time:  4 secs).

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                Summaries:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Installation Summary
--------------------
Name                        Level           Part        Event       Result
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rpm.rte                     4.15.1.2006     ROOT        DEINSTALL   SUCCESS   
rpm.rte                     4.15.1.2006     USR         DEINSTALL   SUCCESS   

Checking filesets and network boot images for SPOT "aix730101spot".
This may take several minutes ...
aixnim # 

Hinweis: Einem Fileset-Namen kann auch der Prefix „I:“ für installp Image vorangestellt werden.