I think there is a lot to like about Vista TN3270, price per seat being just one of many.
However I do rely on IND$FILE quite regularly and found it to be rather sluggish using OOTB defaults. Hopefully there exists a buffer size adjustment or some other setting which improves throughput in this area. Tom if your still following this conversation, would appreciate any IND$FILE speed-up suggestions either to this list or privately. Thanks much, Mike -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 5:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: And the survey says... Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. Pan Skorupka, I'm not sure whether I'm about to agree or disagree about FTP. I use FTP as much as possible for file transfer, but I don't understand why a terminal emulator needs it built in: What's wrong with just using Windows FTP and MVS FTP? Which is maybe what you're saying. One reason I like FTP so much is that IND$FILE can be so clunky if you have more than one or two files to transfer. Most emulators provide a way to set up multiple transfers, but only manually - that is, I have to add each file to the collection, one at a time. How is that better than doing the file transfer one at a time. Unless I'm going to be doing the same transfers many times, of course, but that's never the case, for me. What I really want is to set up a list of 40 or 50 filenames, and provide that list to the utility. I can do that with native FTP. I've done it for IND$FILE, too, but only by manually creating a multiple-file transfer containing three or four filenames, then analyzing the instructions it saved and writing a program that reproduced that proprietary format for my 40 or 50. It's worth the trouble only when I'm starting out at a new client that doesn't support the mainframe FTP server, and I need to load my REXX tools. So when you write "scriptable IND$FILE", my ears perk up. Someone tell me more, please. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If...you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of cruel ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. -C S Lewis, _The Problem of Pain_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 08:08 I don't care about ftp client. In fact I have never used a client delivered with PCOMM or Nexus. Reasons? a) ftp CLI is enough for me, b) there are plenty of ftp clients, some of them quite sophisticated like Filezilla. However I much appreciate PCOMM features related to IND$FILE. Not very clear for newbies, awfully translated to Polish, but really useful and last but not least: scriptable! There are simple SRL (text) scripts for mass unload/upload. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
