Originally posted by: lueke

Does anyone have any experience with or opinions about downloading the AIX operating system, when placing new orders for systems? Rather than getting disk media....
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

In my experience the media was always shipped with the server. IBM never gave us an option to download. If the media set went bad we logged a call with support to receive replacements.

Anyone has had a download offer?

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

Once we have OS related issue at that time we did had latest version on Media (cd/dvd) , so IBM support provided url from where we did ftp download CD01 ONLY.
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Originally posted by: lueke

I would like to get some feedback, if someone is willing to try to download AIX - and let me know if that option might be preferable to ordering media and waiting for media to arrive in the mail.
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Originally posted by: dukessd

Sorry but I do not understand why you are asking the question.

If you order the media with the system it will arrive within a day or two of the system, often before - the media is typically shipped from a different plant to the system.

If you have a software maintenance agreement you can either order the media or download it at any time and if you order it it should arrive within a couple of days.

Either way you can get the media in a couple of days and your post is nearly 3 months old!
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

These are links to download the AIX image but you should have IBM ID and password
https://www-05.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ess/OpenServlet.wss
For more information regarding support:
http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/guides/handbook.html
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