Re: ptf download confusion

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On my V5R3 box cume PTF's cannot be downloaded.  They are always mailed. 
 Everything except the cumes can be downloaded.

Jim Franz wrote:
> On 10/28 did a sndptford sf99540 with defaults (*linkonly and format *savf) from a v5r4 system to download latest cume on a remote system.
> I'm fairly certain have downloaded cume on this box before. I know have done
> groups. 
> It went thru the normal checking which ptfs needed, then started the big 
> download. Finished the download hour later, did the PTF opt 8 to load from *service, and no ptfs found to load. 
> I checked qibm/... dir and has many mf & si  .savf's with date of the download. 
> Did a WRKPRB and found the problem generated - answer is PTF's mailed. 
> Got the cd's today for cume, hiper, DB group. 
> Question: Is it normal for it to spend an hour downloading ptfs in the cume (i checked), and then decide to mail them?
> Jim Franz