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No. I am not using SNDPTFORD, I am using Fix Central. I don't wish to
avoid, I want to include, and the way I am doing it is working fine. The
issue is that IBM is making an image (lowercase, not to be confused with
*IMAGE) of the cumulative for each and every Fix central download. Why do I
have to wait, when the cumulative package is the same every time when no
option is selected to connect to a machine to validate the PTFs already
installed.

I need the entire cumulative CD (or package if you wish) because I am
installing these PTFs on multiple customers, multiple machines.

Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of CRPence
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:52 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: subject: Re: Electronic Software Delivery - Bandwidth Question

"If you don't take the connect to your machine"? Should that
have been "If you do not take the *option to* connect to your
machine"? Regardless....

To avoid selecting the PTFs on the cumulative for download, the
delivery format requested would need to be for the "image" of the
cumulative. The "image" is the pre-created cumulative created for
download. That should be ordered instead of asking for all PTFs
from the cumulative. I believe that is the equivalent of:
SNDPTFORD PTFID((*CUMPKG)) DLVRYFMT(*IMAGE) REORDER(*YES)

Regards, Chuck

Pete Massiello wrote:

If you don't take the connect to your machine then it has to send
you the entire package. What Paul is alluding to is that if I
ask for the latest cumulative package, that should be an
off-the-shelf download which is ready (when not selecting to
connect to your iSeries and look at what you have already
installed). I shouldn't have to wait 30 minutes for this to get
put together.

I agree with Paul, this is needed.


Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

I agree Paul. That would be nice to do. There are those of us
who have suggested this in the past however our voices have not
been heard very well. Perhaps we can put in a requirement with
the CAAC, which I would be willing to do, however I would want
to know if others feel this is a benefit, or hinderence to
downloading the PTFs. Keep in mind that if IBM packages the
groups for any machine, the downloads would be larger.

What say the group?

On 3/10/2010 2:43 PM, Musselman, Paul wrote:

While we're on the subject--

Is there any reason why the latest Cume package and Groups
can't be pre-assembled, ready for -anyone- to download,
without having My Very Own Copy prepared for me? If I'm
willing to take the full package (including PTFs I may
already have), I'd have half of it (maybe) downloaded before
the server can build a custom version Just For Me.

I usually take the full version anyway so I can copy it to
our 2nd machine, and I'm sure others do as well.


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