Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows
- From: John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (McKown, John)
- Date: 19 Mar 2008 08:08:51 -0700
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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:00 AM
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Subject: Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows
A lot has been said about MVS/DNS/etc..., knowing the IP
address of the workstation in order for MVS to initiate the
FTP "down" to the WS. Most have said it needs to be a static
IP address.
At this site, we use static IP addresses. However, while I
no longer have the VBS/WSF (a VB script) file, at a prior
site I wrote a plain-ole BAT/CMD file which called CSCRIPT to
process the VBS/WSF file which would parse a txt file that
was the output of "IPCONFIG /ALL > IPINFO.TXT". The data in
the file contained the current WS IP address.
Once the file was parsed (I got the data I needed), I knew
the IP address and would save it to a one-line TXT file which
was then FTP'ed to the MVS host and stored in a flat file
which was read, actually copied, into the "host side" FTP
SYSIN file. Now, I had what I needed to know to initiate the
FTP down to the workstation. Using the Scheduled Tasks
utility in XP, the BAT/CMD file would be kicked off at system
started up (boot) and daily, about 10-15 minutes before the
first MVS job of the day that produced the data I needed on the WS.
While there may have been a better solution, or one more
robust/reliable, it was not as ugly as it seems and the end
result was it worked! In the time I was there using this
process, there was only one occasion when the lease of a
workstation expired between the time the IP address was
FTP'ed to the host and the time the host needed the IP
address to send the data down. I had intentions of rewriting
the script file, but you know how that is!
Good idea! I think that I'll do something similar for my Linux
workstation, which does not register itself in the Windows arena.
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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology
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