McKown, John wrote: Ah, thanks. Splitting the ftp into separate steps is not going to happen. And writing my own ftp client in REXX ain't going to happen neither <grin>. Actually, the latter violates our current directives of "no custom code". We are trying to become a COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software only shop. Once there, I guess we fire all our programmers. Of course, once there, we will likely be off of z/OS entirely.
So I will stand by my original request for a scriptable ftp client that comes ready-to-run from IBM. Or from any other software vendor who will give it to us for no cost, with lifetime support included. This link seems to reference the function I was thinking of ... http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1D360/12.10 -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

