Many thanks. I didn't really "get" what the macdef was about. John McKown
Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On > Behalf Of Paul Rogers > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:36 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Need "unusual" Linux ftp client > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, McKown, John > <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote: > > I download data from z/OS. And I do it repetitively. > Basically, run a job on z/OS to generate a file. Download the > file. Process on Linux. Repeat. I do some intermediate work > on z/OS between runs. This work changes the output of the > job. I want to compare the output from the various runs. I > currently do this by starting up the Linux ftp client; do a > runique; then get the file. This results in the ftp client > creating a series of file on Linux with .1, .2, .3, and so > on. What I would like to do is not need to remember to do the > runique command, but have it be the client default. I cannot > change the z/OS ftp server's defaults. Well, I could, but I'd > catch you-know-what if I did. <grin>. Is there some way to > have the Linux ftp client do this for me? Why not just depend > on myself? Because I sometimes mess up. And it only takes > once to overwrite a file. Is there some other way to do this? > > man netrc > > $ cat .netrc > machine zOS-hostname-or-ipaddress macdef init > runique > > $ > > > Oh, I guess that I could make an ftp step in the job with > an sunique and reverse the roles. However, I'm not actually > creating a file. I'm creating a SYSOUT report. And the z/OS > ftp server can then make that available to the Linux ftp > client. Saves me from creating the dataset and cleaning it up > later. I guess that I could do a GDG, but that's more of a > problem than I want to bother with. I'm lazy. > > A lazy man is an efficient man! > > Enjoy! > > Paul > > > John McKown > > Systems Engineer IV > > IT > > > > Administrative Services Group > > > > HealthMarkets(r) > > > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > > (817) 255-3225 phone * > > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain > confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail > and destroy all copies of the original message. > HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten > and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, > Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West > National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA > Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO > LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
