On Thursday, 09/28/2006 at 01:56 MST, Tom Cluster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I ftp from my production machine to my DR machine, logging onto my > own userid on the remote machine, I find that I can issue the "rmdir" > command (remove directory) and that it will remove my remote SFS > directory even if there are files in it. Yet if I try to discard the > directory from a dirlist, it will fail because of the presence of > files. Could be dangerous.
The FTP server issues DMSERASE CSL call with the FILES option. If there are subdirectories, the RMDIR will fail. However, the TCP/IP User's Guide says .... Note that the usual restrictions regarding non-empty directories/subdirectories may prevent an RMDIR from being executed successfully. Refer to the CMS User's Guide for further information. I would suggest opening a PMR. Based on the documentation, there should be some thought given to the presence of the FILES option on the DMSERASE. (There may be a good reason for it.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
