Attachmate is the company that created several products,
including EXTRA!, which is a Windows program that emulates
a 3270 type device for IBM mainframes. If you have an IBM
type mainframe, an AS/400, or even a RS/6000 and wish to have full screen (80 rows by 24 columns) access to the device...
Yes, the file transfer wizard is very confusing.
We use it here all the time, but until you figure out the
first one, it's all greek.
Anyway, if you're still interested in using the wizard,
e-mail me back and we can step you thru this.
Need to know your network topology.
Will you be using TCP/IP to access the mainframe?
Can you 'ping' the mainframe using both the network
name and the ip address?
Examples:
ping mvs
ping 178.44.23.7
ping mvs.mycompany.mynet ( mvs.ibm.com )
Hope you're still not waiting on an answer on this.
Need to know your mainframe's operating system in order to
better answer. We use OS/390 and only the TCP/IP address
to lock down a user / ip address.
As this shop still uses terminal id's that point directly
to a specific user, we need to...
First, here is sample JCL from OS/390 to download a file.
//FTPSTP1 EXEC PGM=FTP,REGION=2048K,
// PARM='172.16.13.16 21 (TIMEOUT 20'
//* 172.16.13.16 is address of intended receiver of data
//* 21 is the FTP port
//STEPLIB DD DSN=TCPIP.SEZALINK,DISP=SHR...
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