They say that large dinosaurs had a brain in the head, and a brain near the back legs, because it took too long for information from the feet to reach the brain. I’ve always thought that programmers have a brain in each hands so they can type when the brain is thinking of other things. The problem with this is when you do not use commands, the hand brains forget the commands, and you have to use the head brain. I experienced this trying to FTP a file to z/OS and my fingers would not type the commands I used to know and love!
The FTP daemon needs to be running, for example S FTPD.
FTP to z/OS
- ftp 10.1.1.2
- userid ….
- password
Set up the environment
- ASCII
- BIN
Setup the dataset parameters using the site command
site cyl pri=10 sec=10 recfm=fb lrecfl=80 blksize=3200 vol=(volid1,volid2)
You can specify size units
- cyl
- trk
- blk
I could not see how to display the default “site” parameters, so if in doubt specify all the parameters.
Change directory ( HLQ) at the remote end
cd ‘COLIN’
Change directory at the local end
lcd /u/colin/
List directories ( HLQ) at the remote end
cd ‘COLIN.CBT’
diror
ls ‘COLIN.CBT.*’
Gave
125 List started OK Volume Unit Referred Ext Used Recfm Lrecl BlkSz Dsorg Dsname C4USR1 3390 2022/04/22 1 45 FB 80 5600 PO V502.FILE967.PDS 250 List completed successfully.
Send files
You can use PUT or GET; MPUT or MGET.
MPUT and MGET will prompt for each file. You can toggle the prompting using the prompt subcommand
prompt
gave
Interactive mode off.prompt
gave
Interactive mode on.
Additional information
- ? – displays a summary of the commands
- help command – gives a short description of the command
- quit – exit FTP
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