A lot has been said about MVS/DNS/etc..., knowing the IP address of the workstation in order for MVS to initiate the FTP "down" to the WS. Most have said it needs to be a static IP address.
At this site, we use static IP addresses. However, while I no longer have the VBS/WSF (a VB script) file, at a prior site I wrote a plain-ole BAT/CMD file which called CSCRIPT to process the VBS/WSF file which would parse a txt file that was the output of "IPCONFIG /ALL > IPINFO.TXT". The data in the file contained the current WS IP address. Once the file was parsed (I got the data I needed), I knew the IP address and would save it to a one-line TXT file which was then FTP'ed to the MVS host and stored in a flat file which was read, actually copied, into the âhost sideâ FTP SYSIN file. Now, I had what I needed to know to initiate the FTP down to the workstation. Using the Scheduled Tasks utility in XP, the BAT/CMD file would be kicked off at system started up (boot) and daily, about 10-15 minutes before the first MVS job of the day that produced the data I needed on the WS. While there may have been a better solution, or one more robust/reliable, it was not as ugly as it seems and the end result was it worked! In the time I was there using this process, there was only one occasion when the lease of a workstation expired between the time the IP address was FTPâed to the host and the time the host needed the IP address to send the data down. I had intentions of rewriting the script file, but you know how that is⦠On Wed Mar 19 9:34 , Rich Juchniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >You could consider running an FTP server on Windows on a PC in your network >that has a static IP address, and initiate an FTP session to it from z/OS to >transfer the files. We've used the free FileZilla FTP server to do this: >http://filezilla-project.org/ > >..Rich > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Day" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> >Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:08 PM >Subject: MVS initiated FTP to Windows > > > 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? > > --Dave Day > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
