Re: PTF download failures

Yep, that's a timeout in the firewall. I run into that behavior all the
time.

I have one customer where I have to fly out to them hand-carrying the
groups/cumulative on a USB, (the POWER system is in a colo not far from
their location but none of them are authorized into the system, don't ask
why, I have not figured it out yet) to load the fixes. It costs them about
$2k by the time you add travel etc. just to do updates. It would be much
easier and cheaper if they would just revise the firewall rule to allow
longer downloads.

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:48 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I used to use the ftp method to get the ptf iso images directly to my
lpar. Worked for years. Then it repeatedly started dying. Seems like it
would die at roughly the same spot on one of the largest iso images. I had
opened up a case with IBM. They did a BUNCH of stuff but basically pointed
to an issue with our network. Our network consultant wasn't too helpful so
I just use FileZilla to get them from IBM's site to my PC and then use
FileZilla again to put them on the lpar. This works.

Illegitimi non carborundum

Rob Berendt
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I am in the process of trying to get a machine current on CUMs and PTFs.
It
seems like with everything I try to download, at least one of the files in
it encounters an error and fails to download.



Is there a way to "re-execute" a previous download or do I have to keep
creating new ones so I get what was missed?

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