Sorry for misspeaking in haste. Per your recommendation, I used option 2 ' Without GUI display'. That did exactly what I needed.
. . . 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 9:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP MGET In your message below you said "I set up ISPF 3.7 Workstation GUI", and I just want to check if you really are running the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA) in GUI mode? I think most people who try WSA in GUI mode run away screaming and never come back. In my opinion it's the main reason why the WSA never really took off. But if you change the WSA to run in non-GUI mode, it will still let you do all of the good stuff I mentioned in my earlier email (including using 3.7 for file transfers), but it will let you do it without having to suffer with using the so-called 'GUI'. Anyway, really glad to hear your file transfers are now working the way you want! Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:28:58 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FTP MGET > To: [email protected] > > 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 > > -----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 > > -----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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
