The timeouts are the exact reason I swtiched to downloading to an NFS server and then doing RECEIVE FROM NTS. An FTP or Download-Director download is much faster and reliable than RECEIVE ORDER. I had a couple of orders that had to be restarted after it had almost completed, wasting a vast amount of time.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Walter Marguccio < [email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Barbara Nitz [email protected] > > > Let's restate the question: > > How many of you can use RECEIVE FROMNETWORK directly, without starting > > other supporting programs? > > to download PTFs we use Internet Service Delivery, that is, RECEIVE ORDER. > Simply great, no manual steps at all as with ShopzSeries. > > I downloaded my z/OS 1.9 using the CustomPac dialog jobs, and I find it > also > very good. The job to download the order had to be restarted a couple of > times > (timeout, IIRC), but this was the only manual intervention required. > I find the whole process far better than tapes. > > > Walter Marguccio > z/OS Systems Programmer > BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH > Munich - Germany > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
