How to FTP from MVS to OPENMVS

[Michelle Daw]

I am having problems ftp'ing from a mainframe MVS system to OPENMVS. The command i was given is the following: cd '$1$DGA2:[Dealers.999]'. It is not working. I have been able to ftp manually from WSFTP to the directories but when i change directories it looks like: $1$DGA2:[000000.DEALERS.999] I tried using this in the ftp process in MVS and it doesn't work either. I have even tried to ftp to the $1$DGA2: directory and it's not working either. PLEASE HELP

[Craig A Berry]

Be sure you are not wrapping the path specification in single quotes:

ftp> cd $1$DGA2:[Dealers.999] ! right

not

ftp> cd '$1$DGA2:[Dealers.999]' ! wrong

Try the pwd command to see where you are when you first log in.

Are you getting any error messages? "It is not working" could mean a lot of different things.

[Martin Johnson]

Have you tried to set up logicals in the OpenVMS account (i.e. edit LOGIN.COM and assign logicals to the directories you want to copy files into/outof).

That way OpenVMS will translate to the correct directory.

HTH
Marty

P.S. If you are really using the single quotes, that is your problem.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Depending on how many files you need to get you might not even need to change direcotry i.e. a

get $1$dka2:[dealers.999]foo.bar foo.bar
should work without changing the directory first.

And yes the quotes are an issue ;-) (which easily can happen if you are familiar with MVS since there they are required in certain circumstances).

[Michelle Daw]

Thank you everyone.... I removed the single quotes and put the hex value in for the square brackets. The problem was that MVS didn't have the ability to just use the [ or ]. I fixed it and it ftp's wonderfully now.

Thanks to all!

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Just for the benefit of others in the same situation: You do not need to use [] brackets, <> is acceptable for VMS too, i.e.

$1$dga2:[dealers.999] can be replaced by
$1$dga2: