Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

[jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe the sort starts after the first two characters?  If so, that brings up the question of why.  But, that looks like how they are sorted.

John McKee

-----Original message-----
From: Vern Hamberg vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:40:45 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images

> Scott
>
> There are table-of-contents files in each image - at least, I call them 
> that. You can see these files if you look for your virtual cd in /QOPT - 
> the contents of those files are used, I believe, to sort these things. 
> Also, things like prereqs and all are in there, somewhere.
>
> Vern
>
> On 3/25/2011 8:18 AM, Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> > A day late and a dollar short.  I could have tested this yesterday while I was upgrading our Dev LPAR.  I loaded the OS image catalog from DVD and was surprised today to notice that there are no .bin or .iso extensions on the files in that catalog.
> >
> > They sort like this:
> >
> > 	Image File Name
> >
> > 	I_BASE_01
> > 	B_GROUP1_01
> > 	B_GROUP1_02
> > 	B_GROUP1_03
> > 	B_GROUP1_04
> > 	B_GROUP1_05
> > 	F_MULTI_NLV
> >
> > So it's not alpha, is it possible that the sort is based on content and not the name?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >   
> > Scott Ingvaldson
> > Senior IBM Support Specialist
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DrFranken [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:41 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: IBM 7.1 OS .iso images
> >
> > Before you use the catalog you'll do a VFYIMGCLG with *UPGRADE and
> > SORT(*YES) so you can pretty much load them in any order you feel like :-)
> >
> > I've had conversations with the 'iso naming department' about their
> > wonderful names and they tell me all that is 'good stuff in there'. So I
> > rename them about as suggested by Brian I_BASE_01.iso.
> >
> >    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
> >
> > On 3/24/2011 4:05 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:
> > > Yep.  Just make sure they are in the catalog in the correct order (not
> > > sure about volume ID's).  I haven't tried loading them randomly but I
> > > think they will be searched in order.
> > >
> > > Pete Helgren
> > > Value Added Software, Inc
> > > www.asaap.com
> > > www.opensource4i.com
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/24/2011 1:54 PM, John.BresinaJr wrote:
> > > > I just downloaded the 7.1 .iso images to my laptop.  When I FTP them to the IBM "I" partition can I shorten the names?
> > > > I really don't want to have them I_BASE_01_IBM-i_Licensed_Machine_code_112008
> > > >
> > > > John Bresina Jr| Sr Engineer | TTS Server Tech Unix HQ/iSeries | *Target |  33 S. 6th St.| Minneapolis, MN 55402 | 612 304 3665 (ph) |
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