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Question concerning FTP from z/OS

Crazy Water — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:46:50 GMT

I have a question concerning FTP. I am on a z/OS system and I am FTPing into a OpenMVS system. I am issuing an MGET command to get all files that start with MRX*.* . The MGET command uses the file name on OpenMVS to create the dataset name on the mainframe. The problem is that there is a ;1 at the end of all file names when you do a LS command on OpenMVS and the MGET is seeing that as part of the filename. The ;1 is an illegal dataset name on the mainframe and the FTP fails.

So my question is what is the ;1 and can anything be done about it to maybe suppress it?

Hopefully this question makes sense, I am not a OpenMVS person. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bruce

Re: Question concerning FTP from z/OS

Karl Rohwedder — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:06 GMT

Depending on the TCPIP stack used on the VMS side, there may be SET commands or logical names to prevent the transmission of the version numbers.
E.g. the HP TCP/IP Services stack suppresses the version numers when defining:

$ DEFINE /SYSTEM/EXEC TCPIP$FTP_NO_VERSION 1

regards Kalle

Re: Question concerning FTP from z/OS

Crazy Water — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:04:05 GMT

Thanks very much for the quick response. I will pass this info on and see what can be done...

Bruce

Re: Question concerning FTP from z/OS

Crazy Water — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:42:39 GMT

One more question...this change that you passed on to me, I assume this change is to the entire OS environment, so anyone that uses this version number would be affected?

Bruce

Re: Question concerning FTP from z/OS

labadie_1 — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:51:20 GMT

Yes a define/system is for all the users, but you can put in the login.com of the user Tcpip$ftp (which starts the FTP server) a more modest
$ define...
(the same as Kalle cited, but without the /system)

Re: Question concerning FTP from z/OS

Steven Schweda — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:57:22 GMT

> [...] I assume this change is to the entire
> OS environment, [...]

Yup.

If anyone has ported wget to z/OS, you might
be able to use it to do the job more easily, but I've never heard of it having been done.
(That's not a non-existence proof, however.)

You may need to create a more complex/capable
script/procedure to do the job. (Get a file
listing, process the names, fetch the files.)

> [...] I am not a OpenMVS person.

No one is. It's VMS. MVS is IBM.

Re: Question concerning FTP from z/OS

Crazy Water — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:07:58 GMT