If FTP access includes running jobs via FTP, then it can been done.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: uploading a PDS to my PC
> 
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:51:00 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote:
> 
> >The first choice and safest way would be to ftp directly between the z/OS
> Lpars.
> >If that is not possible, then, as others have said, and especially for a 
> >loadlib,
> you need to use TRANSMIT or TRSMAIN (or possibly ADRDSSU) to create a
> transportable format. And be sure to do all transfers in binary mode.
> >
> In the case in which the person controlling the process has no access other
> than FTP to one or both of the mainframes, none of the suggestions
> work: not FTP of load module, not TRANSMIT, not TRSMAIN.  Other vendors of
> idiosyncratic data formats have chosen to provide such function in their FTP
> servers; IBM has not.  I consider it a bad business decision to make the IBM®
> mainframe less accessible in this fashion.
> 
> -- gil
> 
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