Instalingl Yum on IBM i

Changing yum to work when ftp is blocked.sh

#1. Download the entire directory at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/ibmi/products/pase/rpms/repo
#2. Upload the entire directoy to IBM i ifs
#3. Change the baseurl in /QOpenSys/etc/yum/repos.d/ibm.repo to point to ifs directory 
# FROM: baseurl=ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/ibmi/products/pase/rpms/repo
#   TO: baseurl=file:///path/to/local/repo
# EXTO: baseurl=file:///QOpenSys/etc/yum/IBMRepoLocalMirror/repo
vi /QOpenSys/etc/yum/repos.d/ibm.repo

Install Yum IBM i when FTP is not blocked on i.sh

wget ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/ibmi/products/pase/rpms/bootstrap.sql 
system -i "RUNSQLSTM SRCSTMF('bootstrap.sql') COMMIT(*NONE)"
ls /tmp
cat /tmp/bootstrap.log
system -i "QSH CMD('touch -C 819 /tmp/bootstrap.log; /QOpenSys/usr/bin/ksh /tmp/bootstrap.sh > /tmp/bootstrap.log 2>&1')"
ls /tmp
cat /tmp/bootstrap.log

yum install fails if ftp blocked.log

ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/ibmi/products/pase/rpms/repo/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/ibmi/products/pase/rpms/repo/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'Connection timed out after 30031 milliseconds')
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: ibm. Please verify its path and try again

You can use http or https urls now, though the ACS installer and SQL installer still require FTP to work.