> It is not put on the same server, you are given no indication of how
to
> get to it. The naming conventions are different. Instead, you are
given
> the choice of either DownloadDirector (which does not seem to be
> functional, even though it stores something unusable on your disk and
> says it completed successfully) or HTTPS (which delivers a file that
can
> be DETERSEd).

I'll second this. ShopzSeries is very difficult to interact with in a
number of ways (on the days when it's working at all, since parts of it
seem to be tied to the "new" IBMlink infrastructure).

It would be very helpful to have a TCPNJE delivery option that could be
set up on-demand (which would be nice for VM and z/OS delivery) -- order
something, provide an destination hostname or IP address and port
number, and then just start a link on my local RSCS and watch it go.
Ultimately, something like Debian's apt-get interface would be ideal
(it's based on http) and is as simple as 'apt-get install xxxxx' and the
tool goes out and checks a list of locations, downloads the xxxxx
package and stores it on the local system, optionally invoking a
installation process if desired. 

DownloadDirector usually mangles VM files in ways that aren't friendly,
and it doesn't understand structured files at all, so you end up with
problems like the OP's problem with TERSE, etc, etc. 

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