Re: Downloaded installation files for IBM licensed products -- what to do?

[Colin Williams <colinwilliams007@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unless you need a copy for future reference etc, you should be able to load
the images up into an image catalog, and run you install from there.

The PTF or Upgrade manuals have sections on creating image catalogs, bit
fiddly the first time, but after that its a breeze!


On 29/11/05, James H H Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My Fellow Geeks:
>
> Anybody familiar with how IBM packages and ships LPPs
> electronically, and how to deal with such shipments?
>
> We've obtained some installation files for IBM Licensed
> Products (the AS/400 server for Websphere Business
> Integration, and some pre-requisites) and I'm not entirely
> sure what we're supposed to do with them. Are we supposed
> to FTP them somewhere onto the target box, or are we
> supposed to burn them onto a CD-R and load them from the
> CD drive?
>
> (And yes, as soon as I send this, I'm going to RTFM!)
>
> Yes, we package and distribute our own products
> electronically, but they're just ordinary save files, or
> in the case of QuestView, an inner save file packaged with
> an installation program in an outer save file, all of
> which evolved from packaging systems we devised for tape
> and "DistributeIt" floppy disks.
>
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> JHHL
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