RE: Problems with Download Director

Yes, I tried that as well. Seems like a real time waster to download the
files to your PC and then upload them again to the System i when they can be
directly downloaded, but I had already tried the direct route several times
and failed. So, I tried downloading to my PC. That failed twice at about
the same time into the download as well. It's almost like there is some
glitch in a file that it can't get past.
BTW, the initial time remaining starts out at about 1 hour 45 minutes but
approaches that in elapsed time and then the time remaining starts to
INCREASE.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk Goins
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Problems with Download Director

I have had good luck with Download Director as long as I download to my PC
and then send the files to the system manually. It appears that if you say
to the system directly it simply stages the files on the PC anyway... For
me I can typically download a full uncustomised CUME in about an hour with
Download Director. To do that with FTP I need to start several separate
sessions.



On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Jack Kingsley
<iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I would agree with Tommy as well, you running pop-up blocker possibly.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:26 PM, <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

I have *never* had a good experience with download director. I just
choose the FTP method then run the FTP in batch on my system. Once
it's through I'm ready to roll. My advise is dump download

misdirector...

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From: "Thomas Garvey" <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/31/2011 11:23 AM
Subject: Problems with Download Director
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Hi, everyone,

I'm having a very frustrating time with Download Director. I need a
cume for my v5r3 partition (a software vendor says its required but
can't be specific about the PTF actually needed to resolve an
issue), but haven't been able to complete the download.

It prepares the order and I wait till it's ready, then select the
Resume My Pending Orders. It begins the optical image download
direct to the

system

and runs fine until after it says it has completed 5 of 6 files.
Then

the

estimated time remaining just starts going UP along with the elapsed

time.

I've let it run for over 24 hours with no actual advance in
completion percentage.

First of all, I'm not sure why it says 6 files being downloaded when
the actual files listed by the Download Director are 13. Then, no
matter the format I instruct it to download (optical image to
system, ftp files to

my

PC, etc), it fails. I've tried Mozilla Firefox and Internet
Explorer,

two

different partitions, and over three days have nothing to show for
it as it seems to fail at the same approximate depth into the
download. By the way, the Download Director is described as being
restartable should the download fail. I have seen nothing to allow
that.

The only option I think I have left is to order the CDs to be
created and mailed to me.

Has anyone else ever encountered this type of issue with Download
Director?
Anything I haven't thought of?

Thanks for all suggestions.

Tom Garvey

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