RE: CD to Image Catalog

Slightly off topic, but:

I talked to an Image Catalog developer at the Spring COMMON and
requested the ability to be able to load an Image Catalog from the
CD-rom in my desktop PC.  His comment was that a person could rip ISO's
and then FTP those to the iSeries and load the Image Catalogs, so the
ability to load the Image Catalogs directly was not that great of a
benefit.

If you think that this would be a useful feature please submit a DCR at:

https://www-912.ibm.com/r_dir/ReqDesChange.nsf/Request_for_Design_Change
?OpenForm 

If anyone has tried to install the IBM Director package that comes with
V5R3 or V5R4 you'll notice that it can all be installed directly from
your desk.  

The idea that we need to go into the datacenter to use the console or
load a CD/tape/whatever is just another one of those quaint old ideas
that makes us look "legacy" to the Windows Heathens.

My personal goal is to do my next system upgrade from my cell phone.

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:22:11 -0500
from: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: CD to Image Catalog

daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've got some Kronos service pack CD's that I want to copy to image
> catalogs and send to a remote system to install from.  I've tried some
> variations of CRTDEVOPT, CRTIMGCLG, and ADDIMGCLGE but no luck.  What
do I
> need to do?  Both systems are at V5R3.

I use a PC based program to create ISO image's from CD's
(http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm).

david