RE: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval

Jim, the SNDPTORD can be automated whereas how do you automate the
download from fix central ?



Don Brown





From: "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
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Date: 30/11/2017 05:52 AM
Subject: RE: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval
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Also: I know many of you love SNDPTFORD. Consider ordering the
groups/cumulative from Fix Central and using FTP to bring them down they
building an image catalog. Download speed is really no different than
SNDPTFORD and you have far better control on where it goes and ability to
clean it up.

We do this weekly for several customers and have found the Fix Central
method much easier and more manageable than the alternatives.


--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:45 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval

Matt,

The question is whether or not MGTOOLS will order those individual PTF's
which are not on a cume or a group yet. I do not know. The options I
showed you for SNDPTFORD will not.

But you have to install MGTOOLS, as Jim noted:
<snip>
First go out and get the MGTools (must gather tools) for your
version/Release. Install that. It's a save file you restore, about as
easy as it gets.
</snip>

Once you have it loaded MGTOOLS has it's own menu option to update
MGTOOLS.
I've had IBM service request it a few times lately for some of my issues.


Rob Berendt