> I would like to FTP them to my hard drive. FTP always has two ends. The ends make a difference! The end where you initiate the transfer is called the "client"; the other end is called the "server." Either end could be the "from" end or the "to" end - you can even do both in one "job."
I'm going to guess that I can re-phrase your question as "How do I initiate an FTP on my Windows system that will copy all of the members of a PDS to my PC's hard drive?" Is that correct? If not, my answer is going to be useless; please re-phrase my question. There are two kinds of FTP clients for Windows: the one that comes with Windows, and all of the others. The one that comes with Windows is a "classic" FTP client -- a command-line type program. Here is how to do what you ask, from memory - so I may be a little off: C:\>FTP 12.34.56.78 [or whatever your mainframe's IP address or URL is] userid password lcd "whatever Windows folder you want to put the members in" cd my.PDS.name mget * [hit enter for every prompt - alternatively use the prompt command first to turn off prompting] quit You can get help on these sub-commands by entering help commandname from within FTP. The "other" FTP programs tend to be more graphical and Windows-like. If you will be doing this often, one of these would be a good investment of your time. You may have firewall issues on your mainframe that the Windows FTP client cannot solve, but the third-party clients can. One decent Windows FTP client is Ipswitch WS_FTP. The lite version was free, last I knew. Google knows where to find it. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Help : FTP A PDS G'Day I am a new member to your board and I have heard great things about it. Can anybody please tell me if and how I can FTP a whole PDS/PDSE? I have this pds with about 39 members. I would like to FTP them to my hard drive. Thanks mates. John --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals: It's free to check out our great singles! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
