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AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

  • 1.  AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Wed November 01, 2023 04:44 PM

    Hi,

    I'm not sure if it is an entitlement thing, or an error on the IBM support site, but I am trying to download the ISO (or tar file) of the AIX Toolbox so that I can install it on a machine with no internet access.

    I can see the Toolbox in my list of Entitled Software, but when attempting to download using either Download Director or HTTPs, it comes back with a 404 error and says the file isn't there. The documentation for it is fine however.

    Is this something that other people are seeing as well? And is a known packaging bug, or is it no longer available through ESS or Passport Advantage?

    Cheers

    Andrew



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    Andrew Smith
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  • 2.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Thu November 02, 2023 09:45 AM

    I'm getting 404 as well for both the tar.gz and the iso. Maybe they're in the midst of updating it? It is almost a year old.



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    Mario
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  • 3.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Thu November 02, 2023 09:51 AM

    Hmm, weird. I guess they are in the middle of updating it, as you say.

    I'm currently trying a different approach to clone the repo onto one of my LPARs using the following page:

    https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-configuring-dnf-create-local-repos-ibm-aix/

    Hopefully that will turn out okay. But nice to know it's not just me getting the error :)



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    Andrew Smith
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  • 4.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Thu November 02, 2023 09:48 AM

    Hi Andrew,

     

    I checked internally and there is a ticket open to fix this issue.

    But it might take some time (2-3 days).

     

    Thanks,

     

    Sanket Rathi

     






  • 5.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Thu November 02, 2023 10:52 AM

    Yep, I can say it is not an entitlement problem.  There is an outage coming up between Nov. 3 to 6, so maybe it is related to that.  I will contact the site admins.



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    Jim Czenkusch
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  • 6.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Tue November 07, 2023 12:22 PM

    Is ESD-Toolbox_for_Linux_Apps_Common_7.1-7.3_122022_LKT010325.tar going to be available again?   If not, can I get the name and url of the new AIX Toolbox for AIX file to download from?   Thx.



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    Gary Gorski
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  • 7.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Tue November 07, 2023 12:37 PM

    It's there. I'm looking right at it.



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    Mario
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  • 8.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Tue November 07, 2023 12:38 PM

    Hello

    I see ESS images for both Standard and Enterprise



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    Jan Harris
    AIX Development Support (Liaison to the AIX Toolbox for Open Source)
    IBM (Contract)
    Austin TX
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  • 9.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Tue November 07, 2023 01:24 PM
    The download server used by ESS was having problems. I was able to select both toolbox files and start the download just now.

    Jim





  • 10.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Tue November 07, 2023 03:57 PM

    That's great that you all can see it.  But can I get the url please.  I'm not able to find it through the myraid of IBM websites.  Thx.



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    Gary Gorski
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  • 11.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Wed November 08, 2023 08:34 AM

    See my Fri May 27, 2022 04:58 PM response in Sangamesh's Blog:

    Creating local repo with DNF and AIX Toolbox Media Image 

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    FYI:  The ESS site https://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ess

    Start at ESS:

    https://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ess/ProtectedServlet.wss

    My Entitled Software --> Software Downloads



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    Jan Harris
    AIX Development Support (Liaison to the AIX Toolbox for Open Source)
    IBM (Contract)
    Austin TX
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  • 12.  RE: AIX Toolbox iso/tar files not available on ESS?

    Posted Wed November 08, 2023 12:21 PM
    Edited by Andrew Smith Wed November 08, 2023 12:31 PM

    Thanks All,

    I can now see the images on the ESS site, so that makes life a lot easier.

    I ended up following the article here https://developer.ibm.com/articles/configure-yum-on-aix/ whilst the images weren't available. That's now got me a local repository which is available to all of my LPARs so things are a bit easier to administer.

    I used dnf instead of yum but the end result was the same - but having the ISO image has also saved all of the steps required to create a local repository.

    Thanks for all of your help :)

    Andrew



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