Tom Brennan wrote:

>Well, I said the same thing about IND$FILE back in 1998, thinking it would be 
>totally replaced by FTP.  I was certainly wrong about that!  Today I think 
>people use IND$FILE more than ever for smaller file transfers.

... and FTP is supposed to be replaced by SFTP or FTPS ... but I could be 
wrong! ;-)


>And there are folks like you without FTP available - I know how that is, 
>logging on to a customer's mainframe and needing to upload something like 
>SHOWMVS.

It is indeed a PITA, especially if that customer's firewall and network 
settings block you to enter the mainframe.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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