Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

This seems like a whole lot of work to go through to get around a
problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. If the DHCP/DNS is
setup correctly, every PC should have a valid DNS name that resolves the
IP address correctly. I don't remember any site I've worked at recently
(5 years) where I couldn't use a DNS name to address a desktop machine.

Gary Green <Gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3/19/2008 10:59 AM >>>
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 isâ€|

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