Hello, Adam.
Yup this would be a very slick way of distributing software; but I don't
think the format of the data on the DVDs is documented anywhere, nor to
I think IBM will be documenting how to use the FTPGET stage, either.
During the recent 5.3 ESP program, I asked about getting FTPGET
documented, but never heard back anything official from IBM.
Plus, you will notice that there are *two* undocumented stages used by
the DVD restore process: FTPGET itself, and the stage right behind it:
ECKDREST...that's not a part of the normal pipeline stage collection,
either.
Adam Thornton wrote:
So, I'm working on a product that, at its heart, is a couple of DASD
images that get restored to the platters.
Right now, I require two additional 3390-3s for installation: one to
hold the VMARC image of the CMSDDR dump of the disk (because VMARC is
copyable around a network easily because it's F 80, while CMSDDR is
wildly V), and one to hold the unpacked image so that CMSDDR can restore
it.
This is idiotic, but I can't think of a better way to do it, unless:
So, is the on-disk format of the CKD images that the z/VM DVD installer
operates on documented? Because it'd be REAL HANDY to say, "hey, put
these files on an FTP server somewhere, access MAINT's 2CC disk, run
INSTPIPE, make sure you have DASD attached at 150 and 151, and then run
the following two pipe stages:
PIPE FTPGET -v BEF -DVDEOF -h host -u userid -p password -d dir CKD150*
| ECKDREST 150
PIPE FTPGET -v BEF -DVDEOF -h host -u userid -p password -d dir CKD151*
| ECKDREST 151"
Adam
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