A couple comments:
1. RECEIVE FROMNETWORK is absolutely the way to go if at all possible,
agreed. Engage your friendly IBM representative if you need to have a
security discussion about doing this. (One would think you're going to be
using a network-segregated staging LPAR anyway. The RECEIVE FROMNETWORK
connection can also tolerate firewalls, either mainframe-hosted or not.)
2. If unfortunately you have to use an intermediate PC -- and I really wish
you wouldn't -- you don't have to transfer files twice, manually. It's much
easier to set up an NFS or SMB shared drive ("Drive Z" or "Drive M") on
your mainframe. Connect your PC to that, then as you download the files
save them directly to Drive Z. For example, instead of C:\Download it's
Z:\Download -- or the equivalent on a Linux PC. Download Director works
with network drives, too.
3. If you need NFS for Microsoft Windows, you can get Microsoft's version
here for Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778&displaylang=en
Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, and Windows Server 2003
R2 (and later Windows releases) come with NFS (client at least) as an
installable feature.
There are also third party alternatives.
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Timothy Sipples
IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect
Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific
E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com
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