Re: Download Director

I am curious if anyone has submitted formal requests to IBM for a better
approach? If so, can you talk about what you recommended? I've become a
fan of SNDPTFORD and think SNDLPORD** would be a nice addition.

LP = Licensed Program

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:41 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well I completely agree it's a colossal PITB for sure. For LicPgm
downloads its also pretty much the only option unless you like spending
your entire day clicking on download links and watching only two files at a
time download. It took me over an hour to get the proper combination of
brower and Java to play nice and let me download.

HEY IBM: WE LIKE BATCH FTP! (Are you Listening??)

That said the folder I downloaded to (with a 73 in the name) was right
next to 71 and 72 and those both have XML toolkit in them and it did not
find those or complain they were duplicates which as you say they are.

My guess is that it's not really searching for them it's looking at
Download Director previous downloads so DD knows it has grabbed those files
previously. In my case it was the first time I got DD to work on that VM so
it had no history to befuddle it.

Perhaps locate a previous downloads or history file and smoke that??

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.


On 4/18/2016 8:58 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

Does anyone know how to force download director to download EVERYTHING you

ask for regardless of if it finds a file on another subdirectory or drive
letter?



For instance, apparently the XML toolkit was not updated, OK, no issue
with
that but don't search the drive letter and say you downloaded this before
on
some other directory (V7R2) so now I won't download it. It makes getting
a
complete copy of a distribution really hard.



Download directory drives me nuts. If the designers ever had to live in
the
real world outside of IBM's glass house they would understand their
specifications are awful.



--

Jim Oberholtzer

Agile Technology Architects



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