Re: Fix Central cume to image catalog

Rob will sit back and laugh here, but here is my question:

Why are you FTPINg all this images around? Why not host them on ONE partition and use a network based virtual optical drive on each of the other partitions?

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On 2/8/2017 2:44 PM, JWGrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I tend to logon to fix central, order the cumulative package (either the
full cumulative package and/or the hiper PTF's)
for the version and release I need. I then tell fix central to send the
order to the IBM's FTP server.

In about an hour you will get a series of e-mails stating the the order is
ready for pickup.
I directly download then to the IBMi, The IBMi then saves the .bin files
to a save file and pushes
them automatically to all the IBMi partitions that need the fixes.

Works great and I can PTF my entire environment in about two days (with
off hours IPL's)
The IPL's are automated as well.

Jim




From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/08/2017 01:30 PM
Subject: Re: Fix Central cume to image catalog
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Using FileZilla to ftp from my PC to the IBM i..

Man. It took almost 4 hours to download the 35gb from IBM to my PC with
FileZilla. I tried direct to the IBM i via FileZilla and it would have
taken 3 times that long. Had no idea Fiz Central was that slow.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:27 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/8/2017 12:17 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

I would highly suggest you use a binary FTP to push them across.

Filezilla FTP client works great to do it with.

I concur on that. I've had multi-gigabyte Win copy/pastes fail at 99%.

FTP is much more reliable. Filezilla supports restart too.

david



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