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pasupuletitrivkram
Joined:: 2019-10-01
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Location:: Bangalroe

Trying to File transfer to Mainframe

2019-10-02 10:05

Hi Team,
I am trying to do file transfer to mainframe using winscp.com .The following commands are used

Winscp>open <mainframe_server_address:990>
Winscp> Userid: Usr-id given
Winscp>Password:  password given
connecting to <mainfame_server_address:990>....
TLS Connection Established and waiting for messagge 
Starting session..
Session Stared
Active Session..
winscp>put c:\temp\test.txt   XXXXX.YYYYY.ZZZZ.DG191004

file got transferred to successfully but the dataset on mainframe created with prefix of user-id
USERID.XXXXX.YYYYY.ZZZZ.DG191004
But I wanted to send the file as .XXXXX.YYYYY.ZZZZ.DG191004 to mainframe.
Could you please help asap?

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martin◆ Site Admin
Joined:: 2002-12-10
Posts:: 40,605
Location:: Prague, Czechia

Re: Trying to File transfer to Mainframe

2019-10-04

"Mainframe" is quite broad term.
But in general, WinSCP does not work well with FTP servers that do not use slashes in file paths.
https://winscp.net/tracker/49
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_mainframe

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amkMj5o
Joined:: 2020-02-27
Posts:: 1

2020-02-27 17:39

I believe you want to cd up before your put command. Some mainframe systems put you in a "directory," for lack of a better term, that is your user id upon login.
So try cd .. before put. You may also need to cd XXXXX and then cd YYYYY. In that case, you would be putting file ZZZZ.DG191004

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oldbie
Joined:: 2021-01-10
Posts:: 2
Location:: Paris, France

Re: Trying to File transfer to Mainframe

2021-01-11 02:38

May I suggest the following to access z/OS files with SCP FTP:
Assuming that your TSO userid on z/OS is NEWBIE and your home directory
($HOME) as declared in the OMVS segment is /u/newbie :
1) To access z/OS Unix, you may first issue the WinSCP line command:

cd /u/newbie

2) a) To access z/OS MVS, you may first issue the WinSCP line command:

cd 'NEWBIE.'

Please, do not forget the single quotes and the dot after the TSO userid.
b) Then, to access any MVS file, surround its complete name by single quotes:

cd 'ABC.DEF.GHI'

If you execute the TSO command:
Command ==> tso profile
(which is for information only) and you see:
PREFIX(NEWBIE)
then with

cd ABC.DEF.GHI

MVS will try to access the file with completed name
NEWBIE.ABC.DEF.GHI.
If the command
Command ==> tso profile
shows NOPREFIX
you are accessing ABC.DEF.GHI.
The recommended safe way is to always use with FTP single quotes around
the complete MVS dataset name
as in

cd 'ABC.DEF.GHI'

to avoid a possible MVS dataset name completion.
I personally write

cd ''

then I backspace one character and I paste the complete MVS dataset name.

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oldbie

Corrected answer

2021-01-11 02:52

I wrote cd followed by two single quotes and it shows cd followed by only one single quote.
What is advised and is safe is that the complete MVS dataset name is between single quotes.

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