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
