Re: Fix Central missing emails?

Thanks. I will check it out. We already have proxies in place for the HMC
to call home so it can't be hard to have it configured to support this. I
will ask our network folks if this is possible.

The documentation isn't clear on that point but if the service allows
http/https why does it have to be an IBMi partition? Could it not be any
client that uses https and can point to the target and/or proxy?

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 10:55 PM Marc Rauzier <marc.rauzier@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Le 13/02/2022 à 10:32, Laurence Chiu a écrit :

Not here but I wish IBM would move to https downloads for PTF's for IBMi.
The current choices which are Download DIrector to either the actual

host,

to a PC or SFTP are really difficult for us. Our desktop team block Java

so

Download DIrector doesn't work and FTP also is difficult since our PC's
don't have access to external FTP. So what I have to do is get the two
credentials and pass them to our folks who manage secure file exchange

with

trusted parties and have them grab the files for us. It's annoying since
for software like MQ for IBMi you can use Passport Advantage which is
https and for the mainframe from memory the downloads are also https.

ECS/ESA (Electronic Customer Support/Electronic Service Agent) can
download PTFs through https from an IBM i partition with SNDPTFORD
command, without any FixCentral credentials. It can be set up to use an
https proxy which can control those trusted parties you are talking about.

Checkout

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/configuration-instructions-electronic-customer-support-ecs-and-electronic-service-agent-esa-ibm-i

SNDPTFORD has some restrictions, such as a maximum of 20 PTFs ordered
within the same command, and cannot mix CUMPKG with any other request.
Basically, you can order and download a full set of cumulative and all
groups with the two commands SNDPTFORD PTFID(*CUMPKG) and SNDPTFORD
PTFID(*ALLGRP). You will get twice HIPER and DB2 groups but it works.

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