>Thanks again John. I added an OMVS segment to the group my userid is >associated with and a GID(1) to the segment, and I now have access to >FTP from the ISPF option 6 command line.
Just a word of caution here. It seems your environment has not been properly setup for z/OS UNIX: Your userid seems to have had an OMVS segment already but your default group didn't. Usually GID(1) is assigned to group OMVSGRP (if the setup recommendations are followed). I doubt your default group is OMVSGRP, so you just assigned GID(1) to a second group. Don't do this. GIDs as well as UIDs should *not* be shared between multiple groups and userids, resp. This will lead to troubles sooner or later. Here is a useful link that is of great help in finding message and codes explanation: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/lookat/ Simply enter the message id or code in the "Message Id" field an hit enter. (Unfortunately, LookAt does not support "BPXMTEXT" reason codes). -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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