MGET in FTP jcl

nareshratnala · New User Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 8 Location: bangalore

Hi,

COuld you please help on the MGET of multiple files with same name to a dataset?

The name of the files are like this.

Claim_20140902025518.txt
Claim_20140902034033.txt
Claim_20140902070906.txt
Claim_20140902083122.txt
Claim_20140902101835.txt
Claim_20140902103349.txt

Thank you.

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:52 am

Change local directory using "lcd" command in ftp to specify the destination and also look for these threads.

ibmmainframes.com/about46784.html
ibmmainframes.com/about46784.html
ibmmainframes.com/about62698.html
ibmmainframes.com/about37041.html

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:58 am

You can MGET those files to a Unix directory. You cannot use MGET to put them to z/OS data sets.

nareshratnala · New User Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 8 Location: bangalore

David Robinson · Active User Joined: 21 Dec 2011 Posts: 199 Location: UK

It should be straightforward enough.

What have you tried and what problems are you getting?

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:24 pm

With MGET, you need every file name on the remote system to match z/OS expectations: data set names no more than 44 characters, a period every 8 (or less) characters, the first character after a period must be an alphabetic or specified national character; if you are going to a PDS, every file name must be 1 to 8 characters with the first being alphabetic / national.

The file names you posted do NOT meet the z/OS data set name criteria and hence you cannot transfer them to a z/OS system as data sets using MGET (or anything else, for that matter). You could use GET and a local data set name for each file name, but as you have posted MGET cannot be used.

David Robinson · Active User Joined: 21 Dec 2011 Posts: 199 Location: UK

You are of course correct Robert, I do apologise. I was thinking of doing multiple GETs but appending the data to one mainframe dataset.

I must read the questions properly!