IBM Mainframe Forum

Hi All,

Could you please help me with mainframes job.

Job should ftp the mainframes files to desktop.

Is the desktop running the appropriate software to function as a server? If so, then search this forum for FTP examples -- the IP address of your desktop will be the server and a simple PUT subcommand in FTP will transfer the data.

HOWEVER, most desktop computers are NOT configured with the software to function as a server. If this is the case for you, then what you want to do cannot be done, PERIOD. You could connect from the PC to the mainframe and transfer the data via a GET subcommand in FTP, but the mainframe MUST connect to a server to FTP data (this is a general rule, by the way, not specific to the mainframe -- FTP connects to a server, always). There are other possible solutions, of course, but FTP from the mainframe to the desktop would not be one of them.

Some, if not most, emulators provide a file transfer utility for that purpose.

If you have no FTP Server running of your PC you might install the ISPF Workstation Agent on it.
This product serves as a TCP/IP server and has built-in file transfer capabilities which can be used by batch jobs.
And here's the kicker: It's free of any additional charge.