RE: Download Director

Shakespeare was right:

''Henry VI,'' Part II, act IV, Scene II, Line 73.

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim
Oberholtzer
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 8:59 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Download Director

We've asked many times. As I understand it, IBM legal has some kind of a
conniption every time someone suggests a more rational approach. It took a
very long time for them to get Access Client Solutions moved out of ESS for
the first download so the license agreement could be agreed to, and I think
that took nearly an act of God to get done. (thanks Tim!)

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron
Bartell
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 8:46 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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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