Dave; In order to have a Windows workstation accept incoming FTP, in other words Windows as an FTP server, you have to run the Windows IIS service or the equivalent. IIS is an optional component of XP and Vista. There are settings in IIS for starting an FTP server and HTTP server, maybe others. It's been a few years since I worked with it. IIRC it's pretty east to setup, though since this was the part of Windows through which many breaches of security occurred, the security access part of it might be more stringent. It is not setup by default when Windows is installed.
FTP has 2 sides to it: A client and a server. The initiator of the request is the client and it contacts a server on a well known IP port (21 is the default). In your case you want MVS to be the client and Windoze to be the server, so you need a server running on it somewhere. HTH, John R. Sullivan EMC Corporation ________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ I would like to be able to kick off an FTP of a dataset to a Windows platform from MVS. All of the info I can come up with talks about how to perform this from the Windows side. Windows initiated receive. I want to do this from the MVS side. When the file(s) are ready, send them down to the PC. Not when the file(s) are ready, go over to the PC, and run FTP from there to receive the file(s). Is this possible? Is there anything like an FTP daemon that can run on Windows to receive the data and put it in the desired location? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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