Re: Where are my FixCentral downloads

The usual process for FTP ordering is:

1. Go to Fix Central and take the option for an FTP order of Cumes and Groups.
2. Receive the email that ID's the FTP location, userid and password.
3. Manually retrieve the .bin images
4. Manually create the image catalog (maybe only once).
5. Add the image catalog entries.
6. Validate and mount the whole image into a virtual optical drive
7. GO PTF and take option 8 to "Install program temporary fix package"

Items 3 through 6 can be time consuming and require some human interaction. That is what GetiPTF does for you. You still have to order and you will still have to run option 8 but the work of retrieving the images, putting them in the image catalog and getting them ready to apply is done by GetiPTF.
So your steps become:
1. Go to Fix Central and take the option for an FTP order of Cumes and Groups.
2. Receive the email that ID's the FTP location, userid and password.
3. Use the email info and key it into GetiPTF
(Once GetiPTF is complete. I usually run it overnight)
4. GO PTF and take option 8 to "Install program temporary fix package" (using the image catalog/virtual optical drive created by GetiPTF)

Sure, it only eliminates four steps but it is those steps that you got hung up on and that is the most time consuming (and error prone for me).

YMMV but it made it all very simple

Pete

Aaron Bartell wrote:

Does GetiPTF also know which PTFs I need or do I have to figure that out
also?

It does sound simpler, for sure.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Make it easy on yourself next time. Download Bryan Dietz's GetiPTF and
then order your Cume by FTP. GetiPTF will do all the downloading and
image catalog work for you and then you just have to reference the image
catalog when you apply. Simple, easy, works like a charm.

Find it here: http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmmdietz/getiptf.html<http://home.roadrunner.com/%7Ejbmmdietz/getiptf.html>

Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:

If management central did not start, then you might check (in Navigator)

My Connections ->(Your computer)->Network -> Servers -> TCP/IP ->
Management Central and see if that server is started.

That's actually where I went to try and start it to begin with. I right
click and select Start, then it hangs for about 1 minute (assuming it is
trying to start) and then it returns control to me and the status is

still

set to stopped.

I am doing my best to bite my tongue, but I shouldn't need to apply fixes

to

my fix process so I can apply other fixes. IBM, your approach to

applying

updates to an IBM i is to complicated!!!!!!!! Doing my best not to

compare

it to the simplicity of applying updates to my Linux machines.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

For V5R4 and before you don't have to be in restricted, but if you have
multiple users, it is a good idea if you are going to restart

immediately.

If I am going to do a automatic IPL I do it off hours and with the

system

in
restricted state.

If management central did not start, then you might check (in Navigator)
My
Connections ->(Your computer)->Network -> Servers -> TCP/IP ->

Management

Central and see if that server is started.

Jim

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