Many thanks. I never really looked closely at that "macdef" stuff. Very interesting. And it does what I need!
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HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Eddie Chen > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Need "unusual" Linux ftp client > > John, > > In your ftp client > > Type: > > ftp> macdef Myput > Enter macro line by line, terminating it with a null line > pwd > put $1 $1 > <ENTER> > > Then > > $Myput > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Need "unusual" Linux ftp client > > 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. > > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain > confidential or proprietary information. 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