Update. I completed downloading a PDS using FTP MGET *, then ran RENAME to append .txt to every file in the download directory.
Later, thanks to David Salt via Sri h Kolusu, I set up ISPF 3.7 Workstation GUI and downloaded directly with rename to *.txt in one step. You guys are the best. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J O Skip Robinson Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP MGET Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried MGET *.* because I saw that somewhere on the interweb, and MGET * had already failed with one of the ** messages I cited. And yes, the downloaded members are all in ASCII, but without the txt .extension I get prompted for program on every member. I didn't realize the generic rename would hit just the members of the current directory. And yes, this is Windoze. I will try 3.7 after I set it up. Sounds promising. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Salt Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP MGET I'm not logged on right now but if memory serves me right I'm fairly sure ISPF option 3.7 will let you transfer members to a PC and give each one an extension. I know for sure it can be done using SimpList because I've done it many times. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:31:49 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FTP MGET > To: [email protected] > > If in Windows, just copy the downloaded directory in dir1 to a new one dir2 > and issue command: > Copy c:\dir1 c:\dir2\*.txt > > Cd c:\dir1 > ftp MVSlpar > cd 'MVS.PDS' > prompt off > mget * > bye > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of J O Skip Robinson > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 1:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: FTP MGET > > I'm trying to pull an entire PDS to work station. FTP MGET seems the way to > go, but my first effort yielded files with just the member name as file name. > I want member.txt so that I can look at them conveniently. Can't get anything > to work. Last try was this. Each operand is surrounded by blanks. > > ftp> mget -i *.* *.txt > No members found. > ** is not preceded or followed by a period or blank. > ** is not preceded or followed by a period or blank. > 200 Representation type is Ascii NonPrint Cannot find list of remote files. > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
