Re: Just downloaded a PTF group, but now what . . . ?

Another option would be to order the images as a FTP download. Then you
can run an FTP in batch mode to grab the images straight to the IFS

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From: Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/15/2010 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Just downloaded a PTF group, but now what . . . ?
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If your i has access to the internet, and is set up correctly, you can get
the PTFs by using the SNDPTFORD greenscreen command. It allows you to
download a PTF image or images set to an IFS folder. I use this all the
time
to get PTF groups and CUME packages. (Thank you Rob for showing me the
way!!) This way you avoid tying up a PC to do the communication, the
having
to FTP the file(s) to the i. Yesterday I ordered a CUME package, and had
12
to 14 disk images in the IFS folder by the end of day.

As for Image catalogs, you have to create a virtual optical device
(CRTDEVOPT), create an image catalog (CRTIMGCLG), put the file into the
folder linked to the image catalog (FTP or SNDPTFORD), add the disk (.bin)
image to the catalog (ADDIMGCLGE). load the catalog to the virtual optical
device (WRKIMGCLG option 8). Then you can load the PTFs pointing to the
virtual optical device.

My image catalog for PTFs is called PTFCATALOG with an IFS folder of the
same name. When I load the images I choose the option *FROMFILE for the
TOFILE prompt so that I don't get duplicate files in the IFS folder. My
virtual optical drive is called OPTVRT01 as IBM documentation suggests.

HTH

Jim

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just downloaded (hopefully successfully -- the Download Director
became unresponsive) the PTF group for IWS/IAS. It's sitting on my
WinDoze desktop as a .bin file.

Now how do I get it onto our V6 box? The .txt file that came with it
isn't very informative, and the link it gives to the DisInfoCenter (and
the instructions on where to go therein) seem to have been intended for
some other universe.

--
JHHL
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