John, In your ftp client Type:
ftp> macdef Myput Enter macro line by line, terminating it with a null line pwd put $1 $1 <ENTER> Then $Myput -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:58 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Need "unusual" Linux ftp client 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? 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. 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/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. Visit our website at http://www.nyse.com **************************************************** Note: The information contained in this message and any attachment to it is privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message, and please delete it from your system. Thank you. NYSE Euronext. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/