-----John McKown wrote: ----- >I download data from z/OS. And I do it repetitively. Basically, run a >job on z/OS to generate a file. Download the file. Process on Linux. >Repeat. I do some intermediate work on z/OS between runs. This work >changes the output of the job. I want to compare the output from the >various runs. I currently do this by starting up the Linux ftp >client; do a runique; then get the file. This results in the ftp >client creating a series of file on Linux with .1, .2, .3, and so on. >What I would like to do is not need to remember to do the runique >command, but have it be the client default. I cannot change the z/OS >ftp server's defaults. Well, I could, but I'd catch you-know-what if >I did. <grin>. Is there some way to have the Linux ftp client do this >for me? Why not just depend on myself? Because I sometimes mess up. >And it only takes once to overwrite a file. Is there some other way >to do this? > >Oh, I guess that I could make an ftp step in the job with an sunique >and reverse the roles. However, I'm not actually creating a file. I'm >creating a SYSOUT report. And the z/OS ftp server can then make that >available to the Linux ftp client. Saves me from creating the dataset >and cleaning it up later. I guess that I could do a GDG, but that's >more of a problem than I want to bother with. I'm lazy.
Could you write a script that runs the Linux FTP client with commands read from a file? We have an automated daily transfer of accounting data from a Linux application to a z/OS application that works this way. This transfer also uses the FTP client option that calls for reading logon credentials from a file. In the absence of that option, I am not sure what would happen when the FTP client attempted to prompt you for a user name and password with standard input redirected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
