> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Arney > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Auto-FTP > > > Jeff is asking about a feature that is available with the VSE > IP stack's FTP > offerings. With them and the proper definitions, Auto-FTP > support will > automatically FTP a report from the VSE/POWER queues to the > desired location > anytime a spool entry pops up in a designated output class. > There is no > additional action required by the user to make the FTP occur. > > Since he is the author of one of the VSE IP stacks, I suspect > he is thinking > of a new opportunity. And he may have found one since z/OS > TCP/IP does not > offer this support as far as I am aware! > > Chuck Arney
z/OS does not come with such an animal. However, starting with z/OS 1.6, there is a "FTP Callable API". I would __think__ that using this facility along with SAPI to retrieve JES sysouts, it would be __relatively__ easy to implement an "external writer" type facility to read JES outputs and ftp them somewhere. Or maybe even multiple somewheres. If security (encryption) is not an issue, I wouldn't even bother with the above (personally). I would use the standard NPF (free with z/OS) to send the data via the LPD protocol to an LPD server instead of an FTP server. The LPD server would write the data to a file instead of a printer. This should be fairly simple to do using a Linux/Intel system. Now, neither of the two above are likely to be embraced by most companies due to support issues. So a vendor who wrote such a product __might__ have a market for it. Although I know that our company wouldn't buy it (zSeries is moribund), the thought of having an NJE type connection to submit jobs from IP connected servers such as Linux or Windows with the return of the output is very interesting. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
