Someone from Filezilla forums answered me. The location for
telling it the O/S, got moved (from where they were saying it
was, but something they said....). It is now out of <file>, then
click on site manager, then the "advanced" tab.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 11/10/22 14:55, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
The answer is Yes, it can.
FileZilla is one of the few FTP clients that understands MVS FTP requirements.
FileZilla can usually guess that it is an MVS server, but you can help it by
setting up the site in Site Manager, with server type set to MVS, OS/390, z/OS.
Failing to open a data port is usually a sign of a firewall blocking the data
connection, either on the client machine (e.g. Windows Defender) or in between
you and the server. Firewalls often don't like Active FTP. Also some VPN
clients can't handle it. Nor when your traffic is going through NAT. (The
reason is that the data connection is opened from server port 20 back to a
random port on the client.)
FileZilla defaults to Passive mode which is more likely to make it through. This is
controlled by Site Manager > Transfer Settings > Transfer mode.
However, uploading to MVS from a non-MVS client is a problem with every FTP
client I've used (and with IND$FILE transfers), because when you are creating a
new file, you have to set the space and file attributes.
So what's easier is to pre-allocate the file on the MVS machine, and then
upload *replacing* the pre-allocated file.
Still easier, generally, is to upload to a new member in a PDS library, where
the library already exists -- then you don't have to provide space or DCB info.
BUT I've found that uploading to a PDS member is difficult in FileZilla when using
drag-and-drop. In that case, I use Transfer > Manual transfer, and set the
remote path and file directly.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Steve Thompson
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2022 1:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: FileZilla for "ftp" from W11 to z/OS
If any of you have used FileZilla, will it support copying a file
from Winderz to, as an example, ABC.XYZ.JCL?
I have not been able to deduce how to get this to work, scanning
their FAQs (which had a few issues about PDSEs) and forums...
Filezilla seems to be oriented to *nix or NTFS type file systems.
What is driving this is, ftp will make the initial connection and
then it fails to open a data port.
So I am trying other tools that understand SFTP, ssh and the like.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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