Pradeep
I see your regular helpers haven't jumped in yet with their more current
knowledge of CS IP FTP - so I'll have a go with this one.
I think you'll find that attaching your "userid" to the file names is *not*
FileZilla behaviour but usual z/OS behaviour. Unless you indicate that the
file name you provide is complete by enclosing it in quotation marks, z/OS
will assume that you are referring to files which "belong to you" which it
assumes means that your "userid" is the highest level element of the file
name.
After writing this I bothered to turn to my presentation notes of well over
10 years ago on TCP/IP for MVS (as CS IP was known back then) FTP. I found
the following which I expect is still correct on the basis of the IBM rule
that "what worked once will always work":
<quote>
root
directory
---------------------------------------------------
| | | | | |
directory file file directory file file
----------- -----------
| | | |
file file directory file
-----------
| |
file file
The model for FTP file identification is, naturally enough, the UNIX (or
AIX) model. Consequently an unqualified directory is the "root" directory
and the directory structure is as shown in the diagram.
The TCP/IP for MVS implementation of FTP treats the level qualifiers in an
MVS data set name as defining directories.
Initially the userid used to logon is defined as the current single and
highest level "pseudo-directory". This may be changed with CD .. and CD name
commands.
</quote>
Taking note of that last paragraph, I see I remembered more-or-less
correctly.
I expect that if you enter a PWD command immediately after logging on to FTP
you will see that your "userid" is the apparent "present working directory".
You should be able to prevent your "userid" being prepended to the file name
by using the CD .. command - as will be familiar to you from working with
the Windows command environment or UNIX - or Unix System Services I expect.
The last paragraph from my presentation material notes is as follows which
covers the quotation marks possibility.
<quote>
All is not lost, however, for those who have become lost trying to follow
this "mapping" between UNIX concepts and MVS concepts, since full data set
names can be given, including the identification of members in partitioned
data sets, by using the conventional name, fully qualified, enclosed in
single quotation marks.
</quote>
P.S. Regarding John's point about FileZilla being very much like the FTP
function in FireFox, I can't help noting that they very probably come from
the same "stable" - but only based on the name since I see that FileZilla is
*not* advertised as a Mozilla product at http://www.mozilla.org/ .
Chris Mason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pradeep_Vasudevan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: FTP from a Windows PC to Mainframe server
Hi All!
Its great that Filezilla has worked out. But it always prefixes with the
Mainframe Logon ID. For example, when I upload 'GG1.CSV' from my Windows
desktop to the Mainframe server, it gets uploaded as 'USERID.GG1.CSV'.
Can we change the name to 'ABC.DE.SAMF' while uploading the file from
Filezilla?
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FTP from a Windows PC to Mainframe server
I haven't tried it very much, but FireFox now has a ftp client (plug in)
that looks fairly nice. Much like FileZilla, in fact.
--
John McKown
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