Re: subject: Re: Electronic Software Delivery - Bandwidth Question

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  "If you don't take the connect to your machine"?   Should that 
have been "If you do not take the *option to* connect to your 
machine"?  Regardless....

  To avoid selecting the PTFs on the cumulative for download, the 
delivery format requested would need to be for the "image" of the 
cumulative.  The "image" is the pre-created cumulative created for 
download.  That should be ordered instead of asking for all PTFs 
from the cumulative.  I believe that is the equivalent of:
  SNDPTFORD PTFID((*CUMPKG)) DLVRYFMT(*IMAGE) REORDER(*YES)

Regards, Chuck

Pete Massiello wrote:
> If you don't take the connect to your machine then it has to send
> you the entire package.  What Paul is alluding to is that if I
> ask for the latest cumulative package, that should be an
> off-the-shelf download which is ready (when not selecting to
> connect to your iSeries and look at what you have already
> installed).  I shouldn't have to wait 30 minutes for this to get
> put together.
>
> I agree with Paul, this is needed.
>
>
> Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> > I agree Paul.  That would be nice to do.  There are those of us
> > who have suggested this in the past however our voices have not
> > been heard very well.  Perhaps we can put in a requirement with
> > the CAAC, which I would be willing to do, however I would want
> > to know if others feel this is a benefit, or hinderence to
> > downloading the PTFs.  Keep in mind that if IBM packages the
> > groups for any machine, the downloads would be larger.
> >
> > What say the group?
> >
> > On 3/10/2010 2:43 PM, Musselman, Paul wrote:
> > > While we're on the subject--
> > >
> > > Is there any reason why the latest Cume package and Groups
> > > can't be pre-assembled, ready for -anyone- to download,
> > > without having My Very Own Copy prepared for me?  If I'm
> > > willing to take the full package (including PTFs I may
> > > already have), I'd have half of it (maybe) downloaded before
> > > the server can build a custom version Just For Me.
> > >
> > > I usually take the full version anyway so I can copy it to
> > > our 2nd machine, and I'm sure others do as well.