<quote> However I wanted to make it even simpler, with no copy and rename. I hoped there is such feature in ftp - but it seems I was wrong. </quote>
Radoslaw, I had to do the exact opposite thing years ago - take an entire PDS of Cobol programs and send them to Windows, adding ".txt" to the end of them for some project they were doing. I could find nothing that did this in Windows FTP. I ended up performing a 2 step FTP, going to Unix (I believe I used HP-UX) which had the ability of filename manipulation, then do a second FTP from Unix to windows. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: FTP to z/OS PDS - filename extensions W dniu 24.06.2025 o 19:45, Jon Perryman pisze: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:15:06 +0200, Massimo Biancucci<mad4...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I think you can generate the FTP script with a .bat o .ps1 and then execute >> it. > .bat files do not have an FTP API which means you must visually verify that > each file transferred successfully. This is fine for a 1 time situation but > may become annoying if used on a regular basis. > > Languages like Python with an FTP library typically throw exceptions for any > failed command. Since I've never used any FTP libraries, I can't tell you if > the exceptions are reliable nor if there are alternative methods to determine > if a command failed. Actually I'm looking for something *simple*. KIS rules. Python is not standard part of Windows image and many corporations do not allow any installations, even if the software is whitelisted (helpdesk person can do it - but that means ticket, acceptance, bureaucracy and time). So, it is much simpler to copy all the files to temporary catalog, then mass-rename it with single command the use ftp. However I wanted to make it even simpler, with no copy and rename. I hoped there is such feature in ftp - but it seems I was wrong. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN