Hi Barbara, We have just done the download, of z/OS 1.10, to PC and upload to the mainframe. The physical size of the download to the PC was over 8 Gig. The Download Director worked fine and it loaded each individual dataset that you would have seen on the tape, all without errors. As we don't have a large pipe, it took a weekend plus to download the data.
The upload required more HFS space than can be found on a 3390-9. The ROOT file was the largest, followed by the SMPPTS, SMPPTS1 and the AAJVHFS file. Finally have it all on the mainframe but have not yet started the actual install. The actual upload failed numerous times as I was loading the data onto 3390-3s as I did not have any 3390-9 at that point in time. The only issues I had uploading the data was running out of space multiple times. I am not sure I would want to do this again and as most of my sites have 3590 or 3592 I will be suggesting we order on those in future. It just takes too much of my time and too much space to perform the download/upload of z/OS. Regards, Paul Gillis > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Barbara Nitz > Sent: Monday, 24 August 2009 4:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Software delivery via internet or tape > > This is probably a bad time to enquire about it (as most of you are at > Share), > but here goes: > > I read in the SOD: > "IBM plans to discontinue delivery of software on 3480, 3480 Compressed > (3480C), and 3490E tape media. IBM recommends using Internet delivery when > ordering your z/OS products or service which eliminates tape handling. If > you > must use physical delivery, you may continue to choose 3590 or 3592 tape > media. Internet delivery is IBM's flagship delivery method; therefore, > future > software delivery enhancements will be focused on Internet delivery. " > > Seeing how 'internet delivery' is the prefered method, how many of you are > allowed to have a direct ftp connection to IBM? We certainly are NOT > allowed > to have that! So 'internet delivery' means downloading to a PC (provided > there > is enough space on the PC, and I don't even know if the 'toaster' - citrix > clients - can download via ftp), then uploading to z/OS again, provided > there > is enough space there, too. Takes hours, is full of errors. How are others > handling this? > > Best regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
