I know I'm inviting censorious and/or contemptuous lectures, but I've always been happy with using Windows FTP from my DOS window. I whipped up a decent .bat command that asks for me to enter my password (but doesn't save it afterward) and executes the commands I prepared ahead of time. What more can I want?
(Clarification: Go ahead and let fly with the lectures both censorious and contemptuous; I'm likely to learn something interesting, probably even useful.) --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended; but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claim upon them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure. -C S Lewis, _The Problem of Pain_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 14:10 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
