You will get almost as many opinions as there are folks on this list. The question is a lot like "what is a good brand of car for weekend trips?"
I use Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional. I have little experience with anything else for non-mainframe to mainframe access so I am fat, dumb and happy. It is "pure" GUI AFAIK, a Windows Explorer type interface. Perhaps there is also a CLI -- I don't know. Supports both "legacy" datasets and z UNIX files well enough to make me happy. I use the Windows free command line FTP client a tiny bit for one scripted application. Oh! And I use Ipswitch MOVEit Freely for one "embedded" application. It has some option that suited the particular application. It has the advantage that it is ... free. I use it CLI (actually, called from within a program) but for all I know it also has a GUI. I use both exclusively to access z/OS datasets and files from Windows. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Good FTP client for MVS data set access What FTP client do you use to access MVS data sets? Do you like it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
