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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:08:00 PST
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- From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: FTP Configuration Data Set Not Working
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- On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:34:32 GMT,
- RICHARD BOND <rbond@NEVADA.EDU> said:
- > We are running TCP/IP for MVS version 2.1 (I know we are behind) and doing
- > a FTP function from TCP/IP for DOS version 2.0 to it. On the MVS side our
- > user has set up a userid.FTP.DATA dataset including the file parameters that
- > he wants to override from the tcpip.FTP.DATA default.
- >
- > It does not work. Any type of file transfer from any PC running TCP/IP for
- > DOS winds up with the default parameters on MVS.
-
- I can predict the future: IBM will respond "Working as Designed" and
- "Submit a Requirement." userid.FTP.DATA was implemented as a client
- interface, and the FTP server does not look at it. When you FTP into
- MVS from elsewhere, you are talking to the server, which has not been
- made to look at userid.FTP.DATA. It would be nice if it worked the
- way that you want, but I'll be rather amazed if they take an APAR on
- this one... I suggest that you submit a SHARE requirement -- SHARE is
- coming up soon. [The TCPIP requirements coordinator has an Internet
- address, but I forgot who it is and where I kept the info. Sigh.
- Maybe he'll speak up here? And get flooded with requirements...]
-
- BTW, this is one of those "least surprise" issues that so many (most?)
- software developers don't understand. Software should obey the
- Principle of Least Surprise. That means that if a user doesn't know
- exactly how something works and guesses at it, more often than not the
- guess should be correct.
-
- /Leonard
-