Re: Ordering PTF's on CD, tracking where they are at.

[Dave Murvin <davem@xxxxxxxx>]

In my case, my machine is still on V5R3 and I wanted the PTFs for V5R4 
so when I upgrade to V5R4 shortly (I already have the CDs for this), I 
will have most of the PTFs  ready to load at the same time.  I didn't 
want to upgrade to V5R4 and then try to get the PTFs after the upgrade. 
 I will try the internet download again in the future.  From your post, 
I think that once I have a more current system, I should be able to just 
get the PTFs I need in much less than 15 hours.    Especially since I 
would "assume" that there will not be a lot more PTFs for V5R4.  :)

Yes, "5-9 business days" is much slower than 15 hours of download time, 
but I was not in a hurry for the PTFs.  Besides, I wasn't sure what the 
downloading of all that data would do to the fair access policy on my 
satellite connection.

Thanks

Dave

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ok.  However, I was asking that if you ordered the ptf's to come to you 
> electronically instead of on media, and you specified the REORDER(*NO) if 
> you find that the download is much better?  For example, if you order the 
> latest cume, and you already have 80% of the ptf's on that cume, then it 
> will only download the 20% that you don't have.  Which will significantly 
> reduce your download time.
>
> And I still think that 15 hours of download beats "5-9 business days" for 
> USPS.  Heck, in that time the hiper group would be out of date.
>
> Rob Berendt
>