>The DVD would go in your PC / workstation. Other vendors have been >delivering z/OS software this way for a long time. I don't know the details, >but I would guess you would either FTP to your HFS or zFS in place of >RECEIVE FROMNETWORK or perhaps you could NFS mount the DVD >on your workstation. ..... >But running an FTP server on the desktop (native on Linux or OS X; >IIS or Filezilla or ... on Windows) should work. If you have >John McK's peculiar species of PHB, you can run NFS server on Linux >and use 127.0.0.1 as the server for RECEIVE FROMNETWORK. > >I have done RECEIVE FROMNETWORK (of a product not from IBM) with >OS X and Filezilla on Windows XP as servers. (This saves procedural >steps, but no HFS space compared to staging to HFS and doing >RECEIVE FROMNTS.) > >Just think of OpenSolaris, OS X, or Linux as a network-attached >DVD control unit.
Sounds like this is where I stopped when I had to install a 1.4 refresh. Admittedly, there wasn't a receive fromnts back then. But I fought hard to mount my hard drive as an NTS to z/OS - the OMVS part. I still had a lot of problems with missing space in HFSs... And from the time of these replies - sounds like a long night at Share? :-) 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
