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FTPing Files from mainframes to Desktop in TXT Format

PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:36 pm
by venky_2212
Hi All,

I need to Ftp the mainframes files from MF to Desktop in Txt format.

Could you please help me with job / how can we do thru running command prompt??

Re: FTPing Files from mainframes to Desktop in TXT Format

PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:53 pm
by Terry Heinze
We use Attachmate Reflection and it has a File Transfer dropdown option. What emulator are you using?

Re: FTPing Files from mainframes to Desktop in TXT Format

PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:50 am
by MrSpock
We use FTP (PGM=FTP) to authorized FTP servers.

Re: FTPing Files from mainframes to Desktop in TXT Format

PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:46 am
by Robert Sample
I need to Ftp the mainframes files from MF to Desktop in Txt format.

Could you please help me with job / how can we do thru running command prompt??
Your post is confusing -- are you wanting to PUT data from the mainframe, or are you attempting to GET data using a Windows command prompt? If you want to FTP data by running a batch job (or whatever) on the mainframe, then the mainframe needs to connect to a server. Your desktop, like most desktops, almost certainly does not have the software installed to act as a server -- hence if you want to run a batch job on the mainframe to connect to your desktop, then the answer becomes almost certainly what you want will not be possible.

If you want to use a Windows command prompt to connect to a mainframe and pull the data from it, then you should have no problems finding information about the FTP commands. On a z/OS system, the information about these commands are available in the Communications Server bookshelf in the IP User's Guide manual. The normal default is to transfer data as text; if you want the specific .TXT file extension on your file then you issue the FTP subcommand with the extension.

Re: FTPing Files from mainframes to Desktop in TXT Format

PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:37 am
by venky_2212
Yes... I want to use windows command prompt.

Could you please tell me the steps, how to proceed???

Re: FTPing Files from mainframes to Desktop in TXT Format

PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:34 pm
by enrico-sorichetti
Could you please tell me the steps, how to proceed???


we do not know anything about Your organisation standards and practices,
any answer we give will probably be wrong/misleading and You will have to ask Your support group,
better to start asking them from the beginning

Re: FTPing Files from mainframes to Desktop in TXT Format

PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:18 pm
by NicC
At the Windoze command prompt: