RE: Download Director

Yes!!! BATCH FTP. Please!!!!!! We've been asking for two years, I doubt
it will happen.

Batch FTP does not restart, granted, you must re-download the entire file if
it's interrupted, granted. But it rarely fails!!!! And we can pick and
choose what to get. Please IBM listen to your customers on this one.

As to the download director keeping a history on the local machine, which
might be it, but where is it? (Dollars to donuts they put it into the
registry for some dumb reason, it would follow the moronic specifications on
that stupid thing)

I'll start searching.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 8:42 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Download Director

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
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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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