On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 19:13:30 -0500, Brian Westerman wrote:

>You can skip the terse step as long as you use the following on your FTP and 
>transfer it directly from z/OS on the mainframe to z/OS on your PC:
>
>TYPE E  
>MODE C  
> 
If you're afflicted with a PC that runs z/OS.  Hercules?  FLEX-ES?

>MODE C denotes that you are sending a compressed format dataset
>
>TYPE E tells FTP that you are transferring an EBCDIC file.
>
>That's all I have ever needed to transfer the DF/DSS format dump dataset 
>directly to z/OS on the PC.
>
More typically:

230 User ******** logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> 
ftp> 
ftp> quote TYPE E
504 Type E not implemented.
ftp> quote MODE C
502 Unimplemented MODE type.
ftp> quit

-- gil

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