> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Multiple FTP Problems > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/20/2006 > at 07:04 AM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >It seems like there are a couple of options here. The first is to > >split all transfers up into individual ftp sessions, invoke each ftp > >session from REXX, interrogate the output, and make conditional > >decisions based on the results of each invocation. The other option, > >extremely powerful but not so easy, is to roll your own client code > >using the REXX Sockets API: > > Isn't RXFTP available in z/OS? If not, use NET::FTP in Perl. > > --
I do hope you're kidding. Try to get a legacy z/OS COBOL programmer to learn Perl and NET::FTP?!? I haven't tried, can z/OS Perl read/write z/OS legacy datasets as well as UNIX files? If it can, then I guess that I could write a user-runable Perl script. But it would still be "weird" to them due to the unavoidable UNIX stuff if anything "goes wrong". It would also violate our current policy of "no custom code" for things like this. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group 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
