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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 08:41:00 PT
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- Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: jack.hamilton@AMAIL.AMDAHL.COM
- Subject: re: FTP Transport
- Comments: To: apple!ohstvma.bitnet!sas-l@juts.ccc.amdahl.com
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- David Nasser wrote:
-
- > 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?
-
- Well, no. I do think it would be useful. That's not the same as practical.
-
- I don't know what kind of equipment is available to do that kind of thing.
- If there is such a thing as an automatic duplicator/labeler, it would probably
- be less complicated and less expensive to attach it to a PC, and have files
- automatically downloaded to the PC, which would handle them.
-
-
- > >> 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 f
- > >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 prin
- > >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!
-
- IKJEFT01 is batch TSO? That should work too. What about return codes? Does
- either method give you adequate notification if the transfer fails?
-