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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:55:30 CST
- Reply-To: David Nasser <NASSER@UMSLVMA.BITNET>
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- From: David Nasser <NASSER@UMSLVMA.BITNET>
- Subject: re: FTP Transport: Thanx, etc.
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon,
- 9 Nov 1992 11:53:00 PT from <jack.hamilton@AMAIL.A MDAHL.COM>
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- On Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:53:00 PT <jack.hamilton@AMAIL.AMDAHL.COM> said:
- >David Nasser (nasser@umslvma.bitnet) wrote:
- >>
- >> The _good_ news is that it worked. Due to a lack of compatible tape
- >> drives, the only (serious) alternative was to download what turned out to be
- >> about 20 mb to floppy disks (Cringe!).
- >
- >I think there would be a market for a floppy-disk drive for mainframes -
- >something which would allow you to use JCL like:
- >
- > //OUTPUT DD DISP=NEW,UNIT=HDFLOP,DSN=MYDATA.TXT
- >
- >and would write your file to a floppy (or floppies), automatically labelling
- >each one.
- >
- Didn't I hear that its *not really practical* to connect (so much as)
- a CD-ROM to the Big Box? What about 4mm, 8mm DAT? I don't expect to
- see sny of this anytime soon. But you were pulling my leg, eh? eh?
-
- >> The _not-so-good_ news is that it was sloooooooooow. Transfer rate
- >> averaged about 1 kb/sec. Terminal session on (dialed-in) PC was
- >> dedicated to FTP for perhaps 5 hours. Anybody ever heard of running
- >> FTP in MVS batch??
- >
- >Yes. IBM's ftp for MVS supports it. It's documented in "IBM TCP/IP V2R2 for
- >MVS: User's Guide", SC31-6088-01. Basically, you have a batch step PGM=FTP
- >withan INPUT DD pointing to the commands and an OUTPUT DD pointer to a printer
- >or print file.
- >
-
- I had difficulty getting info on this from the local *data center* folk.
- They recommend: // EXEC IKJEFT01 , and, so long as it works, I'm
- agonna run it!
-
- Naztrovya,
- David
-
- David Nasser NASSER@UMSLVMA
- St. Louis, Mo NASSER@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU
-