Hi, Tom. No, I don't think it has those stages included...it does have an FTPGET stage (not written by the Piper, btw), that does an FTP mget operation to load files from the DVD to disk as part of the 5.x install process.
As I think this stage (and perhaps an FTPPUT one, as well), would be useful to a number of folks in the VM world, I have asked Endicott in the past if they would consider documenting and supporting it.....I haven't heard anything back....sigh. DJ ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Special Pipeline module (Was Re: z/VM 5.3 or z/VM 5.2) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:32:38 -0500 > Does this special version of PIPE have the TERSE or CIPHER > stages in it? > > What other useful but undocumented features does it have? > > /Tom Kern > /301-903-2211 > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:17:48 -0700, O'Brien, Dennis L > <Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >To install from DVD second-level, the first-level syste > must be z/VM >5.1 or later. There are programs on MAINT > 2CC that you need for the DVD >install, and 5.1 was the > first release that had them. I suspect that if >you have > access to a z/VM 5.x system, you could copy over the MAINT > 2CC >disk to your z/VM 4.3 system and use that, but I > haven't tried it. The >process uses PIPE FTPGET, but I > don't know if that works with z/VM 4.3's >TCP/IP stack. > There's a special version of PIPE on MAINT 2CC, so that > >isn't a problem. > > >The first-level system must be running in 64-bit mode for > both tape and >DVD. > >
