Example FTP session to retrieve z/VM data - syncsort_capacity_management - 12 - 12.40

Syncsort Capacity Management Installation Guide
Product type
Software
Portfolio
Integrate
Product family
Syncsort
Product
Syncsort Capacity Management
Version
12.40
Language
English
Product name
Syncsort Capacity Management
Title
Syncsort Capacity Management Installation Guide
Topic type
How Do I
Copyright
2023
First publish date
1985
Using FTP to access a z/VM system is much the same as any other kind of system with just a few specific things to bear in mind.

  • To avoid any translation issues, you must transfer the data between systems in binary

  • You must know the userid and password of the z/VM guest holding the data and the minidisk address where that data is, if not on the default address of 191

  • You must know the multi-read password of the minidisk where the data is located.

This example retrieves MONITOR data from a z/VM user called monw where the files are on the minidisk with address 200. The quote ACCT command provides the multi-read password for that minidisk.

FTP <ip.address> or <dns name>
USER monw <password>
cd monw.200                            Minidisk address of the data
bin                                    Ensure binary transfer occurs
quote ACCT <multi-read-password>       Multi read pw for monw.200
site FIX 4096
locsite RECFM=F LRECL=4096
get A100407.T035137 <zOS dataset name> or //DD:<ddname in JCL>
quit

You can use a similar approach to retrieving Velocity Software data files for processing under z/OS. These data files contain variable blocked records, so the ‘site’ and ‘locsite’ parameters above will need changing to match this. Check the file attributes in z/VM for the correct values.