Download the FOCUS Files Electronically

In this section:

The person installing FOCUS must have write privileges to the production FOCUS CMS location. If you are installing from a distribution tape rather than downloading the files electronically, see Unload the FOCUS Distribution Cartridge.


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FTP the Compacted FOCUS Files to VM

The person installing FOCUS must have write privileges to the new FOCUS maintenance CMS location.

Prior to executing this step, you must know the FTP site, user ID, password, and directory path to the service pack folder. Information Builders will send you an email with this information when you order the service pack.

  1. Access the maintenance CMS location you defined in Define FOCUS Production and Maintenance Disks as filemode A in read/write mode.
  2. Issue the following command from the VM Ready prompt:
    FTP downloadftp.ibi.com 

    where:

    downloadftp.ibi.com

    Is the name of the FTP site provided to you by Information Builders.

    The following messages display for the IBM FTP product:

    VM TCP/IP FTP Level 440                                  
    Connecting to DOWNLOADFTP.IBI.COM 38.117.185.171, port 21
    220 Microsoft FTP Service                                
  3. Enter the user ID supplied by Information Builders when prompted by the following messages:
    USER (identify yourself to the host):                    
  4. Enter the password supplied by Information Builders when prompted by the following messages (the password will not display):
    331 Password required for userid. 
    Password:                                      

    The following messages indicate that you have successfully logged into the FTP site and can issue FTP commands:

    230 User userid logged in. 
    Command:          
  5. Change directories to the folder that contains the service pack:
    CD /path_to_service_pack_folder 

    For example:

    cd /FOCUS/76/IBM_VM_AND_ZVM/761/PROD

    The following messages indicate the change directory command was successful and FTP is waiting for a command:

    >>>CWD /focus/76/ibm_vm_and_zvm/761/prod   
    250 CWD command successful. 
    Command:                    
  6. Establish BINARY mode transfer:
    BIN

    The following messages indicate that BINARY mode has been established, and FTP is waiting for a command:

    >>>TYPE i
    200 Type set to I.
    Command:                           
  7. Transfer VMARC.MODPACK to VM.
    LOCSITE FIX 1024
    GET VMARC.MODPACK  VMARC.MODPACK.A

    Messages similar to the following indicate that the transfer was successful:

    >>>PORT 172,18,1,41,159,33
    200 PORT command successful.
    >>>RETR vmarc.modpack
    150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for vmarc.modpack(13312 
    bytes).
    226 Transfer complete.
    13312 bytes transferred in 0.024 seconds. Transfer rate 2340.42 
    Kbytes/sec.
    Command:
  8. Transfer FOCUS.FILES to VM:
    LOCSITE FIX 80
    GET FOCUS.FILES  FOCUS.FILES.A

    Messages similar to the following indicate that the transfer was successful:

    >>>PORT 172,18,1,41,159,33
    200 PORT command successful.
    >>>RETR focus.files
    150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for focus.files(93944640 
    bytes).
    226 Transfer complete.
    93944640 bytes transferred in 0.024 seconds. Transfer rate 2340.42 
    Kbytes/sec.
    Command:
  9. Transfer FMFRE.FILES to VM:
    LOCSITE FIX 80
    GET FMFRE.FILES  FMFRE.FILES.A

    Messages similar to the following indicate that the transfer was successful:

    >>>PORT 172,18,1,41,159,33
    200 PORT command successful.
    >>>RETR fmfre.files
    150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for fmfre.files(80640 bytes).
    226 Transfer complete.
    80640 bytes transferred in 0.024 seconds. Transfer rate 2340.42 
    Kbytes/sec.
    Command:
  10. Exit the FTP session:
    QUIT

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Unpack the VMARC Module

Issue the following command:

COPYFILE VMARC MODPACK A VMARC MODULE A ( UNPACK

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Unpack the Compacted FOCUS Files

Prior to installing FOCUS, you must have accessed the following locations:

The defaults for these locations are filemode C for the current production maintenance CMS location and filemode A for the new maintenance CMS location.

  1. Issue the following command to unpack the compacted FOCUS files:
    VMARC UNPK FOCUS FILES A

    Messages similar to the following display:

    $SERVER$ NAMES    A1. Bytes in=     160, bytes out=      36 (    22%).

    If you get the following message, you did not issue the correct LOCSITE command prior to downloading the compacted FOCUS files:

    Invalid header for compacted file.
  2. Issue the following command to unpack the compacted French files:
    VMARC UNPK FMFRE FILES A 

    Messages similar to the following display:

    AUTOMOD FFOCEXEC A1. Bytes in=    8192, bytes out=   15840 (   193%).

    If you get the following message, you did not issue the correct LOCSITE command prior to downloading the compacted FMFRE files:

    Invalid header for compacted file.

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