What is the nature and description of the request?

Using oc-mirror v2, I want the following workflow:

m2d:
   pull release images into mirror_000000.tar
   pull operator A,B,C images into mirror_000001.tar
   pull operator D,F images into mirror_000002.tar

Now copy all archive files into the disconnected env.

d2m:
  using a consolidated imageset config file (with release and all operators):
  push all images to the mirror reg.

This does not work today and shows the following error:

error mirroring image docker://registry.redhat.io/redhat/redhat-operator-index:v4.19 error: initializing source docker://localhost:55000/redhat/redhat-operator-index:228003067d955dd79c300703560f5bbf: reading manifest 228003067d955dd79c300703560f5bbf in localhost:55000/redhat/redhat-operator-index: manifest unknown

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

This simplifies the mirroring of images in "sets" or batches, e.g. :

Possible batches:  ocp, odf, ocpv, ai, mesh3, sec, appdev ... etc 

Once I have all the sets of operators, users can mix and match from a library of batches, and push the required sets of images into the mirror registry. 

List any affected packages or components.

oc-mirror and OLM.