IIRC Attachmate and Reflections from WRQ merged, and now is a micro
focus product, I use reflections today and you are correct from the top
tab (session-ftp client) opens a new window and you can choose how to
and what OS to connect to, you don't have to be logged onto the same
system you are logged onto via TSO.
IND$FILE is as you said is a command initialed by the client and is
basically a screen scrapper, mistakenly hit attention and you can see
the data on your screen as its being transferred :)
Carmen
On 6/10/2022 2:46 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
Assuming I remember correctly, you started FTP by selecting a menu
option which opened a separate window. That window handled the
transfer and the resulting status. TSO was not informed of this
action and remained at READY. And since TSO never knew you were
running the FTP, there was no reason to lock up the TSO terminal (i.e.
X-SYSTEM). Now, someone could say locking your keyboard prevents you
from, say, doing updates to the same dataset you're running FTP
against. I would expect normal enqueues to prevent that instead of
locking you out of the entire TSO session. Note this was late 1990's
and Attachmate is apparently different now.
IND$FILE of course locks up the TSO terminal because it's a command
and commands lock you up until they complete. So my only explanation
for Attachmate's action at the time was to make FTP act more like
IND$FILE which people were already familiar with... doing a large
transfer? Go get some coffee.
On 6/10/2022 11:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:39:31 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
And I remember working with an Attachmate TN3270 emulator in the late
1990's which would (for no technical reason) lock up your TSO session
while doing an FTP transfer.
How could it have reported status or completion if it transferred
concurrently?
Did it likewise, (for no technical reason) lock up your TSO session
during
an IND$FILE transfer?
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