Re: Help with cume download and application

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I wrote my own utility for this...  it detects when the file transfer 
gets disconnected, or "hung up", and will disconnect and resume where it 
left off.  (Including continuing the FTP from the middle of a file, if 
necessary...  a feature IBM's FTP client on i does not support.)

Works very well for me.


Jim Essinger wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I too have had problems with downloads on the iSeries computer.  They seem
> to time out between the big binary files.
>
> I now use the download director to get the cume images to my PC, then upload
> them using FTP to the image catalog directory.  This seems to work the best
> for now.
>
> I would really like to use the method that Jerry suggests, as I could start
> it in the evening and let it work all night long, without much impact to the
> daytime communications, but there is something in my network that seems to
> limit the number of bytes or the time that our iSeries can be connected to
> IBM using FTP.
>
> HTH
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to get the download capability of cume ptf's to work for
> > us
> > through Fix Central.  It SAYS and APPEARS to be working, but when I try to
> > load the images to a virtual device, it fails.
> >
> > First of all, the files are being downloaded directly to the iSeries.  It
> > creates the directory and lists the files it's creating.  The sizes are
> > listed and you can see continual updates of the files being populated.
> > However, when the download completes (hours later), the files do not even
> > approach the number of bytes in size (almost 20 gigabytes in aggregate)
> > that
> > the download indicated were being transferred.  Also, more than a few of
> > the
> > files said to be transferred do not exist on the iSeries after the
> > transfer.
> >
> > Second, when I do get a complete set of files transferred, and try to load
> > them into a catalog image, that fails as well.  The error message implies
> > the binary data downloaded is not in fact an image.
> >
> > Has anyone encountered this?  I know I've downloaded PTFs before, but never
> > an entire cume.  And I never attempted to create a virtual image before.  I
> > always burned CDs.
> >
> > Any advice would be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Tom Garvey
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