OverviewThe GDPS Customer Support FTP Site provides GDPS customers access to documents and codereleases. The FTP server is located in Boulder, Colorado and managed by the Software Delivery,Enablement, and Support department of IBM. The server is accessible by customers.

There are multiple GDPS/RCMF products: RCMF/PPRC, RCMF/XRC, GDPS/PPRC HyperSwapManager, GDPS/PPRC, GDPS/XRC, GDPS/Global Mirror, GDPS/MzGM, and GDPS/GM. There is oneuserid/password for each GDPS/RCMF product and the password will be periodically updated. Theuserid will provide read-only access to a segment in the FTP site associated with specific GDPS/RCMFproduct and is intended to download files. There are three key subdirectories per each GDPS/RCMFproduct segment:

the docs subdirectory contains documentation for the base version/release.the code subdirectory contains the new version/release the fixes subdirectory is no longer used.

The userid/password for the GDPS/RCMF product installed in your IT center will be sent by emailwhenever there is new information in any of the three directories.

To get the new version/release, you are expected to display the content of each of the three directoriesand download the relevant files. Before downloading you must make sure to set the appropriatedownload mode: either binary for zip/bin files or ASCII for txt files. Detailed instructions are provided inthe download instructions below.

If you have any difficulty accessing the GDPS Customer Support FTP Site, please send an email toGDPS@us.ibm.com.

This section describes how to download a new GDPS or RCMF version/release and its associateddocumentation. The following example uses (1) the gdpspp31 GDPS FTP site userid and (2) GDPS/PPRC 3.2 for illustrative purposes.

The text format convention in the table is:Text in italic font provides an instruction to youText in bold font is input to be provided by youText in normal font is a system-generated response.

200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.

Display the contents of the docs subdirectory to show thedocumentation that is part of the version/release.

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250 CWD command successfulftp >

Change to the docs subdirectory for the specific GDPS/RCMFproduct so that you can retrieve the documentation.ftp> cd docs

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230 User gdpspp31 logged in. Access restrictions apply.ftp >

Enter your password as provided in the email that announcedthe new version/release. Note that the password is casesensitive.Password: “password”

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331 Password required for gdpspp31. Password:

Login into the GDPS FTP Server by specifying the userid &password for the specific GDPS/RCMF product. Note that theuserid is case sensitive.User(service2.boulder.ibm.com:(none)): gdpspp31Note: use the GDPS FTP site userid that is applicable to theproduct you are using.

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Connected to service2.boulder.ibm.com. 220 service2.boulder.ibm.com FTP server (Versionwu-2.6.2(1) Mon Dec 3 15:26:19 MST 2005) ready. User(service2.boulder.ibm.com:(none)):

Connect to the IBM FTP server:On Windows click “Start” > “Run” and specify “ftp testcase.boulder.ibm.com” or “ftp 170.225.15.31” and click on OK.

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221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.221-Total traffic for this session was 267 bytes in 0 transfers.221-Thank you for using the FTP service onservice2.boulder.ibm.com.221 Goodbye.ftp>

Close the FTP session.ftp > close

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200 PORT command successful.150 Opening BINARY mode data connection forGDPS_PPRC_V3R2.zip (2056968 bytes).226 Transfer complete.ftp: 2056968 bytes received in 519.33Seconds3.96Kbytes/sec.ftp >

The file tranfer mode is still set to binary, so proceed todownload the file.ftp > getremote file GDPS_PPRC_V3R2.ziplocal file drive:\dir\GDPS_PPRC_V3R2.zip

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200 PORT command successful.150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.Total 4024-rw-rw-r-- 1 20413400 204 2056968 Jun 22 05:37GDPS_PPRC_V3R2.zip226 Transfer complete.ftp: 86 bytes received in 0.05Seconds 1.72Kbytes/sec.ftp >

Display the contents of the code subdirectory.ftp > dir

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250 CWD command successfulftp >

Change to the subdirectory where the code is.ftp > cd code

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200 PORT command successful.150 Opening BINARY mode data connection forzg246703.zip (5336334 bytes).226 Transfer complete.ftp: 5336334 bytes received in 1379.23Seconds3.87Kbytes/sec.ftp >

Download the Installation and Customization Guide .ftp> getremote file zg246703.ziplocal file drive:\dir\zg246703.zip

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200 Type set to I.ftp >

Issue the command “binary” to indicate that you intend todownload a file in binary format. Note that a zip file needs tobe downloaded as a binary file.ftp> binary

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200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection forGDPS_PPRC_V3R2_Readme.txt (1844 bytes). 226 Transfer complete.ftp: 1902 bytes received in 0,41Seconds 4,64Kbytes/secftp >

Download the Readme file in text format.ftp> getremote file GDPS_PPRC_V3R2_Readme.txtlocal file drive:\dir\GDPS_PPRC_V3R2_Readme.txtwhere drive indicates the target hard drive on our system anddir indicates the target directory.

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200 Type set to A.ftp >

Issue the command “ascii” to indicate that you intend todownload a file in ASCII format.ftp> ascii

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total 10512 -rw-rw-r-- 1 20413400 204 1844 Jun 22 13:02GDPS_PPRC_V3R2_Readme.txt-rw-rw-r-- 1 20413400 204 5336334 Jun 22 07:43zg246703.zip 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 247 bytes received in 0,04Seconds 6,17Kbytes/sec.ftp >

ftp> dir

In a new RCMF/GDPS version release, there will be areadme file and Install and Customization Guide.

In this example, there are two files:GDPS_PPRC_V3R2_Readme.txtzg246703.zip

Now you have downloaded all files that are part of the new GDPS or RCMF shipment. Please follow theinstructions in the Readme file to continue the installation.

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