RE: Help with cume download and application

Thanks for all the suggestions. I just tried the process again, but this
time only for a few PTFs (the ANZOBJCVN command needed some updates).
Everything worked just fine. It downloaded to the System i, I was able to
create the image catalog from the files downloaded, and the PTFs were
applied without a hitch.

My conclusion is that the transfer of the BIG files is just not working and,
at best, full of potential for errors. I'll have to try the FTP route this
evening.

I'll keep everyone posted as to how this works.

Thanks again.


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Subject: Re: Help with cume download and application

Scott,

Would you be willing to share?

Jim

On 6/15/09, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I wrote my own utility for this... it detects when the file transfer
gets disconnected, or "hung up", and will disconnect and resume where
it left off. (Including continuing the FTP from the middle of a file,
if necessary... a feature IBM's FTP client on i does not support.)

Works very well for me.


Jim Essinger wrote:

Thomas,

I too have had problems with downloads on the iSeries computer. They
seem to time out between the big binary files.

I now use the download director to get the cume images to my PC, then
upload them using FTP to the image catalog directory. This seems to
work the best for now.

I would really like to use the method that Jerry suggests, as I could
start it in the evening and let it work all night long, without much
impact to the daytime communications, but there is something in my
network that seems to limit the number of bytes or the time that our
iSeries can be connected to IBM using FTP.

HTH

Jim

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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
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