My goodness, I absolutely agree that a command line interface is ideal. Which, because of no SSL/TLS support, as you say eliminates the Windows provided client. In the past the only good (and free) command line client I've found for Windows is MoveIt Freely. I used to use it extensively until my company implemented whitelisting (can I still say that?) software and I never bothered to get it approved. Ugh, I hate "security". If I find a good GUI FTP client that my coworkers would actually use I could go through the bother of getting it approved. Not sure if the company would be up for buying something because we already have something that kinda/sorta works.
Back to command line, if we could have WSL activated on our workstations we could have all of the goodness of Linux command line tools. Including, I believe, SSL/TLS capable FTP client. I've never asked for it, but think about it often... 🙂 ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jackson, Rob <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:49 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access My opinion, which is absolutely worthless: FileZilla sucks as a mainframe FTP client. BZ is far superior. If you don't need SSL/TLS (which, of course, you do), the "DOS" client is better than both. Who doesn't love a good ol' CLI? First Horizon Bank Mainframe Technical Support -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] I use Filezilla (Open Source) and Bluezone (now from Rocket) Both have their pluses and minuses. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[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? > > I personally use the FTP Client that is part of Micro Focus (formerly > Attachmate) Reflection Desktop for IBM (Reflection Workspace). Being > an application suite dedicated to mainframe access (the application is > primarily a > TN3270 client), the FTP Client that goes along with it seems to truly > understand the idiosyncrasies of MVS and works quite well with it. > > On the other hand, only a limited number of users in our shop are > "authorized" to use Reflection, so they cannot use its FTP client. > They are stuck (currently) with an MVS hostile (IMO) application called > CuteFTP. > > Are there any good "freestanding" FTP GUI applications that are "MVS > friendly"? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
