Agreed and I can foresee lots of problems without FTP. For instance, I have a server behind a firewall so I can't download the server updates via HTTP but can FTP to IBM.
From: David McClelland <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 04/29/2010 11:39 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] IBM Fix Central - needs fixing Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Grr. Sorry if this has already popped up on here - looks like ftp.software.ibm.com, or at least part of it, is disappearing > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/FTPSITE_IS_SUNSET.html Unfortunately, the IBM Fix Central site - http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ - that I get pointed to instead is extremely clunky to say the least. In fact, it's completely failed to work. I'm trying to get the latest Linux tape device drivers for a SAN Storage Agent install, and rather than a quick trip to the FTP site I'm herded around an overly complex driver download site and after being asked to wait for 5 minutes while it 'services my request' eventually it spews out a Java error (for all you error code fans: "Gen.OperationFailed WSWS3713E: Connection to the remote host 9.17.201.116 failed. Received the following error: java.net.SocketException: There is no error" - particularly love that last bit). Never had problems like this with the good old FTP site. Nice 'improvement' IBM, that's 20 minutes of my day I'm not going to get back. I've since found that if I hunt around they *are* still in the FTP site under the 'archive' tree, but not for much longer apparently. Grr. /David 'hates change' McClelland London, UK. Grumpy.
