Re: V7R3 OS image downloads from ESS -- MIDRANGE-L

aria Gabriela Gomez (IBM)
15 Jun 2021 2:41 PM

Hello Jerry,

thank you for contacting the IBMi Global Support Center.

You are getting many images because probably you've selected all the packages. Some of them need to be installed on the IBMi, but many others are upgrades for the clients (for example Client Access or Websphere).

There is also redundant information in you images, for example Media_and_Storage_Ext

(5770-SS1_IBM_i_730_Media_and_Storage_Ext_LCD8_2122_01.udf.ZIP). you got the image for that product, but it is also included in the B_GROUPx_02 image.

I also could see images for R730 and R740. Since you are upgrading to R730, the images for R740 are not required at this time.

Please review the following document:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/666885

As stated on step 1, if you are ordering the upgrade package only then select the top item only for IBM i (5770-SS1 IBMi). If you are ordering additional License programs not included in the base set you can select them also.

You can find the media labels and their contents in the following link:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.3?topic=reference-media-labels-their-contents

In summary, the required images for the system upgrade are those defined in my previous link:

I_BASE_01_Licensed_Machine_Code_RS_730-N_LCD8_2287_11.udf.ZIP

B_GROUP3_01_IBM_i_RS_730-10_LCD8_2299_01.udf.ZIP

B_GROUP3_02_IBM_i_RS_730-00_LCD8_2300_00.udf.ZIP

B_GROUP3_03_IBM_i_RS_730-00_LCD8_2301_00.udf.ZIP

B_GROUP3_04_IBM_i_RS_730-00_LCD8_2302_00.udf.ZIP

B_GROUP3_05_IBM_i_RS_730-00_LCD8_2303_00.udf.ZIP

and all the images for the additional licensed programs not included in the above base set. For example Webquery:

Db2_Web_Query_for_i_V2.3.0_1_of_2_LCD8_1900_04.udf.ZIP

As you can see you are getting ZIP files and long names. After unzipping the file, you can rename the images with their short name: I_BASE_01.udf, B_GROUP1_01.udf, etc.

Note: the extension could be udf, bin or iso. If you are planning to burn DVDs, with the images, the extension must be iso.

I hope this helps.

If you have any question, please let me know.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

On 6/14/2021 12:03 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

Ok, you'd be hard pressed to find a file name too long for ADDIMGCLGE.
I guess I can hear you saying "but there's only so many characters on that parameter!". You'd only be partially right. Let's go back to command prompting 101. If you type in &, and only &, into that field and press enter it makes it bigger. Thus it would allow a longer file name. You can repeat it, multiple times, to make it even bigger.
However, you can avoid ADDIMGCLGE altogether. Instead, have all your files in the directory for that image catalog. In my case it's /fixes/V7. Once they are there instead of using ADDIMGCLGE you simply run this
CALL PGM(QVOIFIMG) PARM('catalog-name' '*ALL' 0)
The documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=catalog-preparing-tape-image-install-software
does not say you do not need to run step 4 if you used the QVOIFIMG API.
After you run that API if you do a WRKIMGCLG and use 12=Work with entries you will see those entries now.

Now, what's your definition of "many, many files"? Two dozen? A hundred? A thousand? Anything less than two dozen or so is not out of the realm of possibility.

Rob Berendt