RE: i7.3 DB Group 16 ** Do NOT Install **

Me mention of Fix Central was just to set the context. I'm not familiar with "download director", I always used FTP.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Oberholtzer [mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2019 12:13 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: i7.3 DB Group 16 ** Do NOT Install **

In the end, do it however you wish, but fix central is a different discussion. I've very rarely had any issue with fix central, so I can't relate to the problems there. Then again I always use FTP to get the images so I don't have to deal with the download director foolishness.

And yes, we often use CLP to order, ( via SNDPTFORD) download, and get ready for apply. Almost completely automated.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Dec 4, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

" the image catalog IS the simplest and easiest method"

I disagree. I used image catalogs with Fix Central. When I gave up on Fix Central and switched to SNDPTFORD I couldn't use image catalogs due to an OS bug. IBM patched the bug, but by that point I'd started using SAVF. It's much easier and I have no intention of going back.

I guess I missed the discussion about old SAVFs. I've never had a problem with it.