Re: fed up downloading from Entitled Software

[Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying that plug-in now.
I tried the http method and had failures there too.
Not to mention the effort of getting all these files ftp'd up to my IFS.

Thanks, Jerry. I'll let you know how it goes.



Best Regards,

Thomas Garvey

On 10/18/2017 12:28 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> In Firefox there is a plugin called "download them all" which we used 
> successfully to get all the files via http.
>
> Then you need to do the unzip thing, select the files you need, and 
> ftp them to the IFS on your IBM I.
>
> Jerry
>
> Oberholtzer's recent notes on this subject are also good:
>
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> You'll have to download at least six DVD images (BASE plus the five 
> GROUPx_xx DVDs) and any individual software products that are not on the
> standard media set.
>
> Most of them will be zip files, so unzip them and use FTP to move them 
> to the IFS, ensuring BIN transfer.
>
> You do not have to change the names of any of them, unless you want to 
> burn your own physical media, then most of the software won't deal 
> with a UDF extension.  Change it to ISO.
>
> When loading the image catalog the easy way is to get the IFS populated.
> Then create your image catalog, I always call mine V7R3LPP.  Then use 
> the API to fill the image catalog. (no typing those really long names 
> into  the command line)
>
> Call QVIOFIMG PARM('V7R3LPP' '*ALL' 0)
>
> The zero at the end is a return code from the API.  The '*ALL' must be 
> in upper case, don't know why but it only works that way. Clearly 
> substitute the name of your image catalog where I put mine.
>
> Verification will not work until you go through option 5 of the GO 
> LICPGM menu and load and agree to all the software agreements.
>
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> On 10/18/2017 10:22 AM, Thomas Garvey wrote:
> > OK, I'm fed up trying to download v7r3 from the IBM Entitled Software 
> > Site.
> > All I can successfully get is the Base file (includes IBASE, B GROUP1 
> > 01, B GROUP 1 02, etc).
> > I've been doing this for more than a week and it always ends up with...
> >
> > Error: Bad file - please re-download
> >
> > No matter which file I'm trying to download.
> > Using Download Director
> >
> > How does anyone get through this mountain of downloads?
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Thomas Garvey