I came up against this and now build the whole ftp job using a batch initiated REXX program.
We ftp backup files to a remote server and I needed a generation of 3 weeks worth of files. Our ftp datasets now look like this: PACK#10.D10210.T10801 etc... I use another REXX program to build a series of FTP DELETE statements to remove files older than 3 weeks old. Clunky but it works OK. If the OP wants a sample, email me off list. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:43:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >>I wrote a small program that took the parm (after the system >>substituted the variables) and wrote it as a F 80 80 file w 1 record. >>Ran it once for each card then used all the files for the input file. >> > But you had to type the date by hand into the PARM, failing > to satisfy the OP's requirement for a symbolic parameter. > >>> On 9/16/2010 at 2:47 PM, "Harris, Randy" wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there a symbolic parameter for date that will allow me to do this? >>>> > Come to think of it, nowadays FTP can take its input from > a DDNAME. Many installations have dealt with the symbolic > date stupidity by providing a parameter member that's > updated periodically, automatically. You could use such > a member as the first catenand. > > Hmmm. DDNAME. Concatenation. I know some of the deficiencies > of FTP. I'd be pessimistic about supplying: > > //FTPDATA DD PATH='/...' > // DD * > // DD DSN=... > // ... > > I wonder whether that works? I wonder whether it's > documented that it doesn't? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
