You're right, of course. There are various other ways to handle zip and FTP.
So far, these are the only two methods we document because we have not had a
request for any other method.
If customers want to do it another way, they are probably smart enough to
figure it out on their own. (And
We only have two methods of distribution available.
1. FTP a zip file to a Windows PC and upload the files to the mainframe.
2. FTP the tersed file directly to the mainframe.
If customers get the tersed file to the mainframe any other way, we are not
aware of it.
I realized that I never posted my solution.
I ended up writing a Windows PowerShell script. It does some verification of
data in a file that contains upload information such as destination IP address
and userid, etc. Then it displays a window prompting for any required items not
specified in
I have done various searches and have not found anything that helps.
The problem happens in IPCS dialog mode in Option 1 - Browse.
I want to use a REXX exec (I call it SYSBXCBX) to format control blocks.
SYSBXCBX is in a PDSE in the concatenation of DDname SYSEXEC. I have tested
with interpreted
Thanks for the responses.
I did receive an explanation that OPTS UTF8 ON is not the problem. The Windows
10 FTP client uses a different function to read the password and always reads
it from stdin.
This is something we send out to customers so we have to expect they may not
have anything
I'm normally a VM guy but I'm trying to do some work on z/OS 2.2, and I could
use some help.
I'm trying to use Windows FTP to transfer a downloaded tersed file from Windows
to z/OS 2.2.
Previously, with Windows 7, I invoked FTP with this command: ftp < ftpscript.txt
The ftpscript file normally
