Re: Fix Central removes use of MGET for PTF downloads with FTPS

Sometimes IBM makes what seem to be reasonable decisions to them, but turn out to be really stupid to their customers. IBM i is not all that hard to get the 5 to 10 DVD images into a script, but back up to AIX and Linux where you have way more files to download and that becomes significantly more difficult. Last time I downloaded a VIO update I think it had something like 1200+ files?

Is IBM purposely make their support as bad or worse than the competition? Seems so.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Feb 21, 2024, at 7:40 AM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You can't make this stuff up:

"The Fix Central Team has determined that because of a potential security risk the use of the * sign is no longer allowed on FTPS file transfers."

So no more 'mget *.bin' in your download scripts.

IBM Made this change a bit ago but didn't say anything about it. The email you get with the instructions will be updated to mention this new restriction. IBM Suggest that to automate this, make the connection, do a DIR with output redirected to a file, then process that file and run individual GET commands for each of the bin files. yeah, I'm gonna do that.... NOT.

Alternatively of course, one of the emails that comes indicating your files are ready does list the files. So ou could copy and paste those names from the email into your download script.


Now, for whatever However you may continue to use splat with SFTP. Thus it's much more likely I'm gonna do this instead.

DrF

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