On Friday, 10/02/2009 at 10:48 EDT, Bob Henry <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> I'm trying to set up an ftp session from my PC to z/VM V5.1. I've tried 
a
> 
> couple FTP products (FileZilla & WinSCP) which produces errors "Faile
> d to
> retrieve directory listing". 

If an FTP client doesn't understand z/VM, then you need to tell the VM FTP 
server to send the filelist in UNIX-style format.  This is done with 
LISTFORMAT UNIX in SRVRFTP CONFIG.


> I finally found an ftp product that works
> 
> (CoreFTP) but the CMS 191 disk is accessed as read only so I can't 
transf
> er
> any data to it. Is there a setting in the z/VM FTP server that causes 
thi
> s?
> Can I issue a SITE command (or something else) that will put the mdisk 
in
> write mode?

If you can't get it in write mode, then someone else has the disk linked 
R/W.  (Are you logged on to the user ID while you're trying to FTP to it?)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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