Re: PTF Download from i5

Bryan,

Thanks. I've downloaded, and I'll take a look.

However, I think there is something else going on here. Yesterday I used the web browser (Firefox) FTP client to download some of the images. Images 1 and 2 were downloaded by the utility that I wrote and matched the IBM documentation's byte count. Image 3 was downloaded via the web browser, and it, too, matched.

Image 4, which was downloaded via the web browser, did *not* match the documentation. So I re-downloaded it overnight. The byte count is still not as advertised; in addition the second download of image 4 differs from the first download of the same image. Again, both were downloaded using the web browser's FTP client option.

For what it's worth, image 5 of the cume was, also, downloaded via the web browser last night, and it's byte count matches the IBM documentation. I am downloading image 4 for the third time as I type this reply.

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Bryan Dietz wrote:

Jerry I wrote a set of programs that makes(at least I think they do) download from IBM's iPTF site easier.
Have a look at GETiPTF from here:

http://home.columbus.rr.com/jbmmdietz/iseries.html

Bryan


Jerry Adams said the following on 4/14/2008 5:39 PM:

I am trying, for the first time, to download the latest cume for V5R4M0 via an FTP script that is used by a CL program ala:

OVRDBF FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(CROWLIB/QFTPSRC) MBR(PTFS)
FTP RMTSYS('PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM')
The script itself is:

Bryan
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