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Steve Coalbran
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Hi - I am trying to download a file from the host to my PC.
(I have zero trouble the other way!)
The examples I have seen require a userid and password.
I guess this is my Windoze userid & pw but they don't seem to work (or I have something else wrong!)
I am on WindozeXP running PGP (which may be getting in the way?)
Here's the JCL...
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//SE16661F JOB (DUMMY),'FTP2PC',MSGCLASS=H,
// MSGLEVEL=(1,1),CLASS=A,TIME=(5,0),NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//FTP EXEC PGM=FTP,PARM=' 9.183.76.102 23 (EXIT=8'
//OUTPUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//INPUT DD *
uuuuuuuu
pppppppp
PUT USER.EXEC(CSV2ISPT) C:/TEMP/FTP2PC.TST
QUIT
// |
which gives...
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EZA1736I FTP 9.183.76.102 23 (EXIT=8
EZA1450I IBM FTP CS V1R11
EZA1466I FTP: using TCPIP
EZA1772I FTP: EXIT has been set.
EZA1554I Connecting to: 9.183.76.102 port: 23.
EZA2590E recv error from getNextReply - EDC8128I Connection refused. (errno2=0x769F0442)
EZA1475I Connection with 9.183.76.102 terminated
EZA1735I Std Return Code = 10000, Error Code = 0008 |
The IP address is from my IPCONFIG and the port is the same I use for PCOMM... Wromg? 
Any assistance appreciated. |
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superk
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| FTP is usually port 21. Port 23 is, I believe, usually reserved for SFTP. What do the configuration definitions in your desktop's FTP server say you should use? |
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Robert Sample
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Hi - I am trying to download a file from the host to my PC.
(I have zero trouble the other way!) |
Unless your PC is running server software (and it is EXTREMELY RARE for any PC not a server to be running this software), you cannot connect from a mainframe (or any other external machine) to your PC using FTP. Your PC must be running FTP software that listens on the appropriate port (which is what a server does). |
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Steve Coalbran
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Thanks Kev - what I know about PCs you could fit on the back of a fag packet! What/where is my FTP Desktop Server? OR is this something I need to install?
I have a FileZilla but that has a blank in the Port field.  |
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Steve Coalbran
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The same happens with Port 21  |
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Steve Coalbran
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In fact the same happens if I blank out the password &/ or the userid or if I remove those lines altogether.  |
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Robert Sample
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| You'll need to install on your desktop and run Microsoft IIS or something else (Google windows ftp server to find out more) to provide the server side support on your PC. I STRONGLY recommend discussing this with your network support group before making any changes, as there are implications in converting your desktop to a server that can negatively impact (in some cases, severely) network performance. |
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Bill Woodger
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As has been mentioned, you are going to need an FTP server running on your PC.
That will have a userid and password to log-on and you should then be able to communicate with it.
The plain FileZilla that you have is to "talk" to an FTP server (on the Mainframe for instance, or anywhere else you can connect to). You need a bit that "listens" while it is running, "hears" the incoming on the appropriate port, and then allows log-on and acess to the PC disk through the standard FTP commands from the Mainframe.
You can do get/put from the Mainframe with the FileZilla you have, but you need FTP server software on the PC to get data to/from the PC if the Mainframe is doing the asking.
You on a Network at work? Talk to the people who support it. There probably is already an FTP server there which can give you access to a networked drive which you can then access from your PC.
If you are not networked, then you need software on the target PC. Presumably work-related, so get them to pay for a good one. I don't know what is good :-) |
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don.leahy
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| Or you could try using the ISPF Work Station Agent. A small program running on your windows desktop listens for file transfers (either up or down) that you can initiate from the mainframe using ISPF services. Like most ISPF services, you can run it in batch. |
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Steve Coalbran
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Thanks Bill, sound advice.
Network? Yes IBM does have the odd network. 
There is a Network-Drive somewhere on this ThinkPad.
Haven't touched it for years so cannot remember how to use it but will dig into it.
It sounds like it's not going to be as easy as I anticipated.
Even if I get it to the network drive then I still need to get from there to the PC.
I may have to re-architect this and just generate the FTP stream on the host but actually run it on the PC end. |
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Steve Coalbran
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| don.leahy wrote: |
| ... try using the ISPF Work Station Agent.... |
Thanks Don, yes I have WSA running and am currently "Connected".
What I was thinking of doing was to backup certain host libraries to my PC for portability from customer to customer.
The features there didn't seem to work for copying whole libraries, even with member masks.
On the other hand, I can now edit PC files using the ISPF Editor! Now, that's what I call progress!!!  |
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Pedro
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| The features there didn't seem to work for copying whole libraries, |
Use XMIT dummy.user DSN(...) OUTDSN(...) to copy your library into a sequential dataset, in Netdata format. You should be able to download the PS dataset using WSA.
Edit the PC file using WSA and copy in the OUTDSN. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Not exactly what you asked, but what works for me "everywhere" is to pull the library from the mainframe rather than trying to push it to the pc.
Create a new receiving directory for the library on the pc. Using the ftp client on the pc, position the mainframe "directory" to the library to download and all of the members can be downloaded in one click. Different clients have different tcp/ip products running, but i've found a usable ftp client on every one so far. |
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don.leahy
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| Steve Coalbran wrote: |
| don.leahy wrote: |
| ... try using the ISPF Work Station Agent.... |
Thanks Don, yes I have WSA running and am currently "Connected".
What I was thinking of doing was to backup certain host libraries to my PC for portability from customer to customer.
The features there didn't seem to work for copying whole libraries, even with member masks.
On the other hand, I can now edit PC files using the ISPF Editor! Now, that's what I call progress!!! |
You're quite right; I forgot that the FILEXFER service doesn't support member name masks. I think I was confused because in my last job I used SimpList, which has that ability. It must invoke FILEXFER for each member in the list, building the receiving file name based on the member name.
Sigh. If only ISPF 3.7.2 (or IPT) could do that. |
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Ed Goodman
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You know the mainframe FTP address. Let's say it's 10.10.10.10.
Try going to a dos prompt and typing
Use your mainframe userid/password to log in
The type
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| get 'mainframe.dsn' pcfilename.txt |
then type
The mainframe file will be in the dos directory from which you started FTP. |
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don.leahy
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| don.leahy wrote: |
You're quite right; I forgot that the FILEXFER service doesn't support member name masks. I think I was confused because in my last job I used SimpList, which has that ability. It must invoke FILEXFER for each member in the list, building the receiving file name based on the member name.
Sigh. If only ISPF 3.7.2 (or IPT) could do that. |
Doh! I should have checked before posting. ISPF 3.7.2 *can* do that. All you have to do is put a wildcard in the workstation file name.
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Menu RefList RefMode Help
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Download/Upload Data Set To/From Workstation
Command ===>
ISPF Library:
Project . . . DDST
Group . . . . LEAHYD2 . . . . . . . . .
Type . . . . EXEC
Member . . . * (Blank or pattern for member selection list)
Other Partitioned or Sequential Data Set:
Name . . . . . . .
Volume Serial . . . (If not cataloged)
Workstation File:
File Name . . . . . P:\My Documents\*.txt
Transfer Option Options
1 1. Download to workstation Generate statistics on upload
2. Upload from workstation / Transfer in text mode
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Steve Coalbran
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Thanks Pedro - yes, I do that elsewhere but I wanted it to be editable on PC too.
| dick scherrer wrote: |
| ... pull the library from the mainframe ... |
Thanks Dick, exactly what I have decided to do.
I was hoping to run it as a batch job (we love JCL!) perhaps even on a scheduler! BUT... needs must?
| don.leahy wrote: |
| ...Sigh. If only ISPF 3.7.2 (or IPT) could do that... |
Thanks Don,
I am talking with Mike Rotter on some IPT possibilities in the WS area, one which was deliberately ignored in IPT actually.
In an OLIST one should be able to use the " filename prefix to signify a WS file but it didn't work when I tried it.
The fix won't (probably) be in the next release of IPT [7.1 coming soon to a site near you!] 
| Ed Goodman wrote: |
| You know the mainframe FTP address... |
Hi Ed Yes, I can FTP fine from PC->host, I do it all the time.
In fact I have a little app that runs in Rexx on PC to trap my ipaddr and FTP it as a tiny file to the host where I have modified the WSCON panel to read the file and load the ipaddr.
I even designed a little icon to start it...   |
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Steve Coalbran
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| don.leahy wrote: |
... All you have to do is put a wildcard in the
workstation file name... |
Hi Don,
I tried that and it only unloads the first member - for me anyhow.  |
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Ed Goodman
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You read it too fast... My example GETS a file on the mainframe and brings it down to the PC. Which is what you said you were trying to do.
Just use a GET instead of a PUT. |
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Steve Coalbran
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| Ed Goodman wrote: |
| Just use a GET instead of a PUT. |
Hi Ed - no "reading fast" is not my style - I'm more of a pedant!
I am trying to drive this from the host so PUT is what I want(ed) to do.
However, I think I've established I DO need to turn it around and generate a FTP command stream on the host and execute it on the PC.
This I have done before many times - once for a complete DataWarehouse! |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| The fix won't (probably) be in the next release of IPT [7.1 coming soon to a site near you!] |
will it be available as a trial download like the previous one ? |
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