The choice between a stage and Unix script is simple: Do you care that you have to land a file on the DS server before transferring it to the mainframe?
In general, I don't want extra files that I have to clean up later. That's part personal and part technical (leaving files can be a security risk). It's also just less coding, and I can clone existing jobs for new ones very easily.
Both work fine. I prefer FTP Enterprise in my environment, you might want to use the plug-in instead, but as I recall the plug-in gives you better access to the details of the FTP session where Enterprise does not but seems to be more stable and faster. You have to explore both given your operating environments.
Franklin Evans
"Shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy." -- Spider Robinson
