On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:43:48 +0000, Gary Weinhold wrote:

>I'm glad there was a solution.
>
>But the underlying problem seems to be that z/OS FTP appears to be limited to 
>processing a binary (image) transfer as a stream of bytes unless the transfer 
>is between a z/OS client and z/OS server.  ...
>
Not entirely true.  In days of yore, from an MVS server and a desktop client,
I have done such as:

    binary
    quote site type e
    quote site mode b

MVS encapsulates the data by its conventions and the desktop sees a
simple "stream of  bytes".  Reversing the process with a "put" with a diffenent
MVS server and the desktop client correctly reconstitutes the data.  Or, a
desktop filter could be written to decode the data stream.

Likewise, the WUSTL FTP server performed conversions on-the-fly, such
as zipping a directory.

z/OS could do better than it does, such as AMATERSE on-the-fly with a SITE
command.

Do the Dovetailed or Rocket products do something similar?

-- 
gil

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