Paul
This is a specific instance of the general rule that, if an FTP client
doesn't understand the command you wish to send to the FTP server, you
should "quote" it, as it were.
From "IP User's Guide and Commands":
<quote>
QUOte subcommand—Send an uninterpreted string of data
Purpose
Use the QUOte subcommand to send an uninterpreted string of data to the
server port on the foreign host.
The QUOte subcommand bypasses the FTP interface of your local host. You can
use the QUOte subcommand to send commands that the remote server
understands, but that the local host does not understand.
</quote>
But you're right, we should be maximally helpful in these posts.
I wondered about your experience with OS/2 since I was pretty sure that the
exercise which backs up the lectures - tell 'em about it in the morning so
they can do it in the afternoon - involved using a PC with OS/2.
So I checked.
Indeed it does but we were using an FTP client GUI program called FTPPM - PM
for "presentation manager" I think. Very probably the program put "quote"
before and command entered in the command field as a matter of course.
But then I read further and, because FTPPM didn't/doesn't allow the JES
output to be retrieved, that had to be done with the basic FTP command.
However, there's no mention of needing to use "quote" in order to use the
"site filetype=jes" command. Why, I wonder, has the OS/2 FTP command
regressed since approximately 1995?
Chris Mason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Job Stream via FTP
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:15:18 +0200, Chris Mason wrote:
SITE FILETYPE=JES
This appears to work from a Solaris client. However, from
Windows XP:
ftp> site filetype=jes
Invalid command.
And, ironically, from a z/OS client:
EZA1701I >>> SITE filetype=jes
502 SITE command not implemented.
... I'll recommend "QUOTE SITE FILETYPE=JES"
-- gil
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