On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:26:20 +0100, Jim McAlpine wrote: >On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > >> FTP uses TCP so it's the reliability of TCP that matters here. Of what >> underlying facilities happen to consist is very probably of no relevance. >> Thus, > >Chris, thanks, that's good to hear. However I've just tried to FTP my first >dump which was approx 1.4 GB and it failed about one third the way through >with - > >Netout : Connection reset by peer >451 Transfer aborted due to receive error > >which doesn't bode well. > In days of yore, transmitting binary files (SMP/E sysmods) from desktop systems to MVS FTP servers, I have observed massive unreported failures such as dropouts of entire 8KiByte blocks. I don't know whether z/OS is better nowadays.
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