Re: Updating WDSC 6.0 - Hangs

Shannon,

It sounds like you don't have the whole update.  IIRC the update from 
6.0.0 to 6.0.1 is more like 1.2GB.  After installing WDSC 6.0 from CD or 
DVD, the first thing RPU wants is to update itself.  I don't believe 
that's too large of an update.  But then it'll try to do a whopper of an 
update which is larger than 1 GB.  Your system may be trying to do the 
download and just not look like it's going anywhere.

Actually, I just checked and I've got the wdsc601.zip file and it is 1.71 
GB.  I've done the update locally and it worked great from this file. 
(Although it still takes a while to apply almost 2GB of updates.)

Michael Quigley
AS/400 Programming Section
The Way International
www.TheWay.org

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/12/2007 01:00:10 PM:

date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:56:34 -0600
from: "Shannon O'Donnell" <shannon.odonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WDSCI-L] Updating WDSC 6.0 - Hangs

I am trying to do the WDSC update from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 on my home PC,
which is a Win XP Pro with 2 gig memory. 

I am using the 300MB zip file I downloaded from IBM to do the updates so
that they can be performed locally instead of downloading and installing
them individually.

Everything goes ok at first, but about 10 minutes into the process, it
gets to a point where it says it is Downloading... a file named
csdev.zip (that's from memory so the file name may not be 100% accurate
there, but it's close anyway).   And then it just sits there and does
nothing. 

I let this process sit (twice now) for 8 hours overnight, hoping it'd
move, but it did not.

I am unable to get the WDSC software updated which is really bad as
there are pieces in it that flat out won't work without these updates.

Can someone from IBM maybe, tell me why this process hangs and what I
can do to get around it? 

I don't even know why it says its downloading anyway.  I thought the
whole point of downloading the 300MB zip file from IBM to do the upgrade
locally was so that it didn't HAVE! To go back out to IBM again during
the process.

Also..I do not have a strong enough internet connection to do the update
online in real time so I have to use the local zip file.

Thank you,

Shannon O'Donnell