Excellent, Thank you Tom! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 8:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: And the survey says...
Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. Click the Options/Options menu and the Misc tab, and there's an option there in the File Transfer Settings named Blocksize. I probably need to rename it because it isn't BLKSIZE, it's the I/O buffer size between mainframe and client. That defaults to 2500 which is leftover from 1998. I've found if I set that to, say 25000, my transfers run about 10 times faster (well, I never really measured, but it really helps). So check for that and bump up the number (a lot) if it's 2500 or so. On 5/1/2021 4:27 PM, Mike Hochee wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
