Anyone have a unix script that gets files from MVS?

Is there anything peculiar about the FTP commands I need to run on MVS?

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:56:18 -0700, John Leslie wrote:

> Anyone have a unix script that gets files from MVS?
>
> Is there anything peculiar about the FTP commands I need to run on MVS?

There are a number of peculicarities about the MVS (surely you mean zOS
ore at least OS/390 FTP server but most are do do with the DCB
attributes of the file^Wdataset being created at the far end when putting.

When getting, you will normally want to use ascii rather than binary.
Transferring a binary from MVS/OS/390/zOS to UNIX is unlikely to make
sense. Apart from that, the MVS etc. server has two versions of "ascii" -
printable and non printable. This controls whether it chops the first byte
of every line off - the one used by MVS etc. for the ANSI carriage
control, when the DCB specifies it. You may need the "non-print" command.

Otherwise there should be no difference to using a UNIX FTP server.

Regards, Ian

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:29:52 +0100, Ian Northeast wrote:

> Otherwise there should be no difference to using a UNIX FTP server.

One other thing - it's best to enclose fully qualified dataset names in
single quotes, or the user's default prefix tends to get added.

Regards, Ian