RE: Help with cume download and application

I just use the FTP option. When IBM sends me the email with the particulars, I type those into a source member and use it as input into a CL program, which is basically:

OVRDBF FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(CROWLIB/QFTPSRC) MBR(PTFS)

FTP RMTSYS('PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM')

The script for the last Groups download I did is, for example:

anonymous somepword
NAMEFMT 1
LCD '/imgclg/CUME'
ascii
cd /ccss/lv1/us67151/b8467151/jerry/c
get ftpGroups.txt
get ilstGroups.txt
binary
get Groups_1.bin
get Groups_2.bin
get Groups_3.bin
get Groups_4.bin
get Groups_5.bin
get Groups_6.bin
get Groups_7.bin
quit

/imgclg/CUME is simply a directory on our System i.

There's a lot more to it, such as submitting it to batch, but I start it before I leave work and everything is sitting and waiting for me

I had to go this route because our "new and improved" firewall didn't like either long FTP sessions nor Download Director.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Garvey
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:40 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Help with cume download and application

Hi,

I've been trying to get the download capability of cume ptf's to work for us
through Fix Central. It SAYS and APPEARS to be working, but when I try to
load the images to a virtual device, it fails.

First of all, the files are being downloaded directly to the iSeries. It
creates the directory and lists the files it's creating. The sizes are
listed and you can see continual updates of the files being populated.
However, when the download completes (hours later), the files do not even
approach the number of bytes in size (almost 20 gigabytes in aggregate) that
the download indicated were being transferred. Also, more than a few of the
files said to be transferred do not exist on the iSeries after the transfer.

Second, when I do get a complete set of files transferred, and try to load
them into a catalog image, that fails as well. The error message implies
the binary data downloaded is not in fact an image.

Has anyone encountered this? I know I've downloaded PTFs before, but never
an entire cume. And I never attempted to create a virtual image before. I
always burned CDs.

Any advice would be welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Tom Garvey