How to FTP file from Mainframe to Unix box

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madsongtel
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How to FTP file from Mainframe to Unix box

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I want a generic job for file movement from Mainframe to UNIX box.
This is not only for any specific file. This is for any file.
How can i design a job?

Please help me!!!
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Post by chulett »

The FTP stages require metadata to work and thus 'specific' files. Perhaps if you generically treated each file as having one very long varchar record this could be made to mostly work as long as you set it to not add any quotes or extra characters to the file.

Personally, I would prefer a scripted approach. Depending on your coding skills, a job control job could manage the script for you or you could build a Sequence job for that.
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