FTP: Active to Passive mode

CICS fan · Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:52 am

Hi,

We have JCL to FTP file to a server in active mode. They are cutting over to passive.

Our FTP PARM is:

superk · Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:00 am

Adding the FTP command "passive" after the logon.

CICS fan · Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:16 pm

Hi Kevin - thanks for the suggestion, its actualy timing out. The other side says that the firewall will accept passive FTP Data ports between port yyyy and zzzzz. While our JCL gets timed out while trying to connect to port aa (we didnt mention it explicit). Anyway we can force it to use the port range or is there anything else we are missing?

-Shamik.

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:03 pm

Check with your network people -- sometimes routers and switches are not set up to allow traffic in the way the mainframe programmer thinks.

Mary Lewis · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:48 pm

I tried typing in PASSIVE after logging in, and it said passive was an unknown command. What did I do wrong? HELP.

superk · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:09 pm

Did you enter HELP or HELP PASSIVE to see if that command is supported on that server?

Mary Lewis · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:15 pm

Passive is not a supported command. Can the passive mode be turned on at the Server level, through configuratioin parameters?

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:08 pm

For z/OS, there are the PASSIVEDATACONN, PASSIVEDATAPORTS, and DATATIMEOUT configuration parameters that may be set (they are described in the Configuration Reference manual in the Communications Server bookshelf). What type of server are you connecting to with your JCL?