RE: There must be an easier way ....

How about this? This is a script that runs in a batch program. The lcd
statement points to my fixes directory in the IFS. The image catalog is also
named fixes.

qsecofr xxxxxxx
close
open ftpserver
user ptf xxxxxxx
ascii
namefmt 1
lcd /fixes
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/bkuprc
mget bkuprc24*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/db
mget db19*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/hiper
mget hiper99*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/http
mget http16*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/java
mget java20*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/print
mget print30*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/secur
mget secur7*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/svcagt
mget svcagt5*
cd /imagepool/images/os400/v5r4/ptf/tcp
mget tcp11*
close

Once the CD images are copied to my machine, I execute this command instead
of adding each CD image to the image catalog:

call Qvoifimg parm('fixes ' '*ALL' 0)

I can provide similar examples of retrieving directly from IBM.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graap, Kenneth
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:56 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: There must be an easier way ....

But, don't you have to CRT the Image Catalog on the TARGET and then ADD
entries? How would I FTP directly to an existing Image Catalog?... Maybe you
could share an example of the FTP command I'd use.

Right now I'm saving the image catalog directory to a SAVF, FTPing the SAVF
to the TARGET, restoring the directory with a different name, Creating an
image catalog, adding image catalog entries by copying them from the
directory I restored from the SAVF... Yuck!

As I already said, there must be a better way!

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