Robert Sample wrote:1. Does your site have a mainframe zip package? Mainframes do not have support for zip by default, so putting the file on the mainframe without having a way to unzip it would be useless.
Rather than ZIP, use TERSE, which is available
here - you have to be a member of the group to access the files section.
Robert Sample wrote:2. Most desktop PCs do not have the software to support operating as a server. If you want to run something (REXX, batch job, or whatever) on the mainframe to transfer the file from another machine to the mainframe -- that is normally done by FTP -- and the machine on the other end of the connection must be a server. So driving a process from the mainframe to retrieve a file from your desktop is almost certainly guaranteed to fail.
Just get
FileZilla Server and, if you don't have a static IP address, a free pseudo-domain from
DynDNS.com, and you can use that to point to your PC (once you've downloaded DynDNS update utility). Works like a charm.