Re: Fix Central to be discontinued

I really hope they do not discontinue the FTP downloading of PTF's
I have the PTF downloading, and distribution and and loading of the image
catalogs completely automated.
I can patch all eight of our partitions, once the FTP download is
complete, in a matter of minutes. (Minus the IPL)
On the PCI partitions I can even schedule the IPL and apply.
Jim
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> On Aug 26, 2016, at 12:25, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> My understanding of this is other technologies have had other avenues to
> order PTFs and other fixes outside of Fix Central, whereas the IBM i
folks
> have been doing it this way for some time. In the end it always winds
up
> sending the requested files to the server that sends out that message.
So,
> that message (however clumsy) is meant for the others, not for us.
>
> I'll need some serious correction if I'm wrong on that.
>
> --
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Agile Technology Architects
>
>
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> Subject: Fix Central to be discontinued
>
> Fix Central will be discontinued.
> They will be replacing it with Fix Central and a host of other methods.
>
> Or are they just so poor at communicating that what they are trying to
say
> is that ordering PTF's via Fix Central to the FTP server is scheduled to
be
> discontinued?
>
> *********************** WARNING ************************ This ordered
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Fix
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