I just downloaded ServerPac from IBM.
Few remarks
* ServerPac is big, ~20,9 GB (YMMV it depends on the products ordered),
but CD/DVD set is much bigger: ~148 GB !
* Approx half of CD/DVD's are junk - Licensed Program Information or so.
Yes, single PDF per disk! Yes, it's pure lawyer gobbledygook with no
technical value. Fortunately "license" disks are small (in terms of
MB's). The second half is ...hard to determine.
* Even without "license" disks it's hard to determine which positions
are worth download. But you have time limit for download, so it's better
to download everything in advance, otherwise you won't get your missing
DVD.
* Additional documents - documents (like "readme .1st) are spread across
many download sub-pages.
* Navigation. No, for your convenience browser's "open in new tab" or
"back" features do not work. Sometimes you can use "back to previous
page" ink on the subpage.
* Additional documents again. There are bunch of them. 90% are not worth
to download, it's just "you should read the documentation carefully".
All of them would fit in ~1MB PDF.
* Additional publications. It ...Licensed Program Specification (again!)
plus ... set of one product's documentation. (one of many). Plus useless
"readme.1st"
* Documentation. It just link to search engine. Now you can manually
download 42 documents ONE BY ONE.
* CustomPac Installation Dialog. AFAIK you *cannot* install Dialog from
filesystem. You can install it from tape or directly from IBM (via
Internet). When you downloaded order to workstation the only option
available is to upgrade existing Dialog. Upgrade, no full installation.
Is't it funny?
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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